† shimosen.
/ʃɪˈməʊseɪ/ Military. Obsolete.
A form of lyddite made in Japan.
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shimose1904
1904 Amer. Inventor 1 June 256/2 An explosive used by the Japanese, and called Shimose, after its inventor,..is said to be more powerful than either dynamite or gun-cotton, and to possess features found in no other high-power explosive.
1904 Knowledge July 158/1 Shimose does not explode on percussion, or by fire, and is not injured by wetting.
1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 258/2 The picric acid compound known as lyddite in England, melinite in France, and shimose in Japan.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Shimose, one of the picric powders, most successful as a military explosive. It is of Japanese manufacture.
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1915 A. Marshall Explosives 322 The first satisfactory solution of the problem was the adoption of picric acid by France. This was quickly followed by similar measures taken by practically all the other Powers, each of whom, however, gave the substance a different name; France..Mélinite, England..Lyddite,..Japan..Shimosite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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