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Answer for the clue "Explosive solvent, as it was formerly called ", 6 letters:
toluol

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toluol \Tol"u*ol\, Toluole \Tol"u*ole\, n. [Tolu + benzol.] (Chem.) Same as Toluene .

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n. (context obsolete organic compound English) toluene

Usage examples of toluol.

At any rate, their lyddites, melanites, cordites, galignites, dynamites, toluols, powders, jellies, oils, marls, came in very well for their own destruction: for by three o'clock I had so worked, that I had on the first vehicles the phalanx of fuses, with kegs and cartridge-boxes full of powder, of explosive cottons and gelatines, liquid nitro-glycerine, earthy dynamite, with bombs, reels of cordite, two pieces of tarred cloth, an iron ladle, a spade, a crow-bar.