Definition of "nitrotoluene" []

• Any of several nitro derivatives of toluene; they have a number of industrial uses, and those with multiple nitro groups are explosive (noun)

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• "Almost all the senior executives had been purged and subsequently tried as class A war criminals since Morozumi had been revamped during the mid forties, becoming one of the leading producers of tri-nitrotoluene for the war effort."