词汇 | shimose |
词源 | shimose. What word did Masashika Shimonose Kogakubachi give us? Masashika Shimonose Kogakubachi got his name into the dictionaries when he invented an explosive made of picric acid. Shimose powder, or shimose, was used against the Rus- sians in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05 and proved highly effective. In France a powder to fill shells was made from it in 1886 and called melenite, while in England experiments in the town of Lydd two years later resulted in the explosive lyddite. All were names for essentially the same explosive, but shimose was the first to be extensively tested in war. Under whatever name you choose to call it, the first modern shell powder—it replaced black powder—has probably caused as much death and destruction internationally as any invention, still being one of the most common military explosives. Perhaps Masashika Shimonose Kogakubachi would rather have had it called by its scientific name of trinitrotoluene. |
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