Also forsite. [f. FORCE + -ITE.] A variety of dynamite (see quot. 1889).
1883. Pall Mall G., 28 March, 7/2. A dangerous explosive known as forsite. [So in other journals of the same day.]
1884. Gen. Abbot, in Eissler, Mod. Explosives (1890), 41. Forcite presents the appearance of a plastic mass having power of nitro-glycerine.
1889. Major Cundill, Dict. Explosives, 56. Forcite has been described as a mixture of nitro-glycerine with cellulose, the latter being gelatinised by heating in water under considerable pressure.
