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Co-op mix en · NOUN
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(Ireland, UK, uncountable) A mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Disrupting Co-op mix devices by burning off the mixture by the use of low-velocity bullets proved ineffective […]
2008, A. R. Oppenheimer, IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity:We found one once, 550lbs of Co-Op mix — and we found the firing position, on our side of the border. So I stood on this bloody thing […]
1985, Desmond Hamill, Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, page 198: