Lyddite

Japanese: lyddite
Lyddite

…The ingredients were shrouded in mystery for a long time, but it was actually picric acid itself. Picric acid was adopted as an official explosive by the French military in 1884 under the name mélinite, and in 1888 it began to be used in the UK under the name lyddite. Shimose noticed this in 1888, and as a result of his research, he devised a method of filling bullets with picric acid, and succeeded in increasing the explosive power of bullets ahead of other countries. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "lyddite" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その成分は長い間神秘のベールに包まれていたが,実はピクリン酸そのものであった。ピクリン酸は1884年フランス軍によってメリニットméliniteという名称で制式爆薬に採用され,88年イギリスでもリダイトlydditeという名で使用されはじめた。下瀬は88年にこれに着目し,研究の結果,ピクリン酸を弾丸に充てんする方法を考案し,弾丸の炸裂威力を列国に先んじて高めることに成功した。…

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