# Favier explosive

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene, used in mining.

## Etymology
After the inventor, P. A. Favier, a Frenchman.

## Source
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