Also -falit, -phalite. [ad. G. Westfalit, f. Westfalisch- (Westphalian), in the name of the original manufacturing company.] An explosive compound, used in three varieties, of which the principal ingredient was ammonium nitrate.
1896. Glasgow Herald, 29 Feb., 7/7. The high explosives, ammonite … securite, and westfalit.
1896. Daily News, 5 Dec., 7/4. The manufacture of the high explosive known as Westphalite.
1906. Sanford, Nitro-Explosives (ed. 2), 294. West Falite No. 1. West Falite No. 2.
1909. Guttmann, Manuf. Explosives, 52. Saxonite … Bobbinite … Westfalite.
