dunnite

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dunnite

(ˈdʌnaɪt)
n
(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an explosive containing ammonium picrate
[C20: named after Colonel B. W. Dunn (1860–1936), American army officer who invented it]
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Exposed rocks in the area are mostly dunnites, peridotites, pyroxenites and at some places serpentinites.
Mineralogy and petrology of chromite ore and associated ultramaphic rocks of Jijal Complex, District Shangla, KP, Pakistan
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