Xyloidine, an explosive like gun-cotton, prepared by the action of strong nitric acid on starch or woody fibre.
Xyloidine
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 768
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Xyloidine, an explosive like gun-cotton, prepared by the action of strong nitric acid on starch or woody fibre.