picric acid , także: melinite , także: carbazotic acid

In 1887 the French government adopted it under the name melinite, with addition of gun cotton.

Dynamite or melinite would soon open an entrance to their fortress.

The explosive charge consists of 5 ounces of Melinite.

In 1887 the French government adopted a mixture of picric acid and guncotton under the name melinite.

Thus in 1890, the archivist Boutonnet was condemned for selling the plans of the shells that used melinite.

They learned to handle military explosives, usually obtained by commando raid on British quarters: trinitrotoluene, C-4 melinite, and others.

At midnight, having failed to remove the bandits, French authorities succeeded in positioning one and a half kilograms of melinite in the house.

It was a form of picric acid used by France as melinite and by Britain as lyddite.

Furthermore, the Japanese used mostly high-explosive shells with shimose (melinite), which was designed to explode on contact and wreck the upper structures of ships.

The resulting shells helped overcome the shortages, but as they had to be manufactured in two pieces they were inherently weak at the base thus sometimes letting hot gases detonate the melinite inside the shell.

Following publication of the book, Verne was sued by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who recognized himself in the character of Roch and was not amused.

As a lawyer, he successfully defended Jules Verne in a libel suit presented against the famous author by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who claimed that the "mad scientist" character in Verne's book "Facing the Flag" was based on himself.

The fancy name "melimelonite" may be a reference to melinite, a high explosive composed of picric acid and guncotton adopted by the French army in 1887; and perhaps also to melon, an heptazine polymer described by Berzelius in 1830, whose structure remained a chemical puzzle until the 1930s.