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/ˌnaɪtɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtɹoʊˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtʃɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən/
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[ UK /nˌaɪtɹəʊɡlˈɪsəɹˌɪn/ ]
[ UK /nˌaɪtɹəʊɡlˈɪsəɹˌɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)
How To Use nitroglycerin In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- Consequently, nitroglycerin went largely unnoticed for many years, while the manufacture and use of guncotton, despite several notorious accidents, spread throughout Europe.
