glycerin

NOUN
  1. a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils
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  • Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms. Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release
  • Since nitroglycerin is moderately volatile and adsorbs to plastic, the sublingual tablets must be stored in tightly closed glass containers.
  • The cork was attached by wire to nitroglycerine explosive and a battery hidden inside the paper. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, we're talking about a very energetic material composed, usually, of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine.
  • He treated her like a carload of nitroglycerine, but she didn't look at him, only at me. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Nitroglycerin makes up about 75% of the materials used in the manufacture of dynamite.
  • Recently, nitroglycerine (glyceryl trinitrate) has been suggested as a tocolytic agent because it showed no significant side effects in animal studies and limited human studies.
  • Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water. The Mysterious Island
  • Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
  • They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants. Uller Uprising
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