brisant

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brisant

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from the French noun/adjective brisant.

adjective brisant present participle of the French verb "briser" · "to shatter".

not comparable, of an explosion or explosive, with the meaning "to break" Having a shattering effect. The use of gun-cotton proper (trinitrocellulose) could not be thought of, owing to the brisant action of this body, but it was found that collodion-wool (dinitrocellulose, soluble gun-cotton), which was less brisant, could be converted into a nearly homogeneous mass which satisfied many of the requi

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@misc{brisant_2026,
  title = {brisant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brisant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}