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glycerine

[ UK /ɡlˈɪsəɹˌiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils

How To Use glycerine In A Sentence

  • With this nitrator it is possible to obtain from 2.21 to 2.22 parts of nitro-glycerine from every 1 part of glycerine. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
  • 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
  • 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
  • They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants. Uller Uprising
  • Castor oil is also a source of glycerine, and the combination of glycerine and hydroxy fatty acids makes it an excellent emollient and pigment carrier.
  • (vagina), in these cases, are not only irritable and itching, but are sometimes hot and inflamed, and are covered either with small pimples, or with a whitish exudation of the nature of aphtha (thrush), somewhat similar to the thrush on the mouth of an infant; then, the addition of glycerine to the lotion is a great improvement and usually gives much relief. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
  • The reason for the replacement is that IMX-101 is even more stable than TNT, which when invented was hailed as famously insensitive to shock and other conditions which would reliably detonate other high explosives of the day such as guncotton and nitroglycerine. Everything2 New Writeups
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