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UK
/nˌaɪtɹəʊɡlˈɪsəɹˌiːn/
]
[ US /ˌnaɪtɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtɹoʊˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtʃɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən/ ]
[ US /ˌnaɪtɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtɹoʊˈɡɫɪsɝən, ˌnaɪtʃɹəˈɡɫɪsɝən/ ]
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 nitroglycerine In A Sentence
- The cork was attached by wire to nitroglycerine explosive and a battery hidden inside the paper. Times, Sunday Times
- Nobel was the owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, including the blasting cap, blasting gelatin, and ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerine smokeless powders to be used as a substitute for black gunpowder.
- The two returned to Sweden in 1863 and Alfred Nobel concentrated on developing nitroglycerine as an explosive.
- He soon found that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a paste, which could be shaped into rods of a size and form suitable for insertion into drilling holes.
- The scanner, the size of a small copy machine, uses spectrometry that can detect a billionth of a gram of explosives, such as TNT and nitroglycerine.
- The explosive power of nitroglycerine had been recognised but it was a dangerous, volatile substance which no-one had managed to harness safely.
- Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase abolished the basal levels of exhaled nitric oxide, and also decreased the exhaled nitric oxide response to all compounds except nitroglycerine.
- Mixed with the rampant hormones of the teen years, this combination becomes as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerine.
- However, we're talking about a very energetic material composed, usually, of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine.
- The tense 1953 film has four desperate men delivering two truckloads of extremely explosive nitroglycerine via a nearly impassable South American jungle road.