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Used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)
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nitroglycerine
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) The compound glyceryl-tri-nitrate or 1,2,3 tri-nitrooxy propane; the ester of glycerol with nitric acid; prepared by the careful addition of a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids to glycerol with constant stirring ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nitroglycerin \Ni`tro*glyc"er*in\, Nitroglycerine \Ni`tro*glyc"er*ine\(n[imac]`tr[-o]*gl[i^]s"[~e]r*[i^]n), n. [Nitro- + glycerin.] (Chem.) A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The Subway Series lumbers along like a freight train overloaded with nitroglycerine on a mountain pass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also nitroglycerin , "explosive oily liquid," 1857, from nitro- + glycerin . So called either because it was obtained by treating glycerine with nitric and sulfuric acids or because it is essentially a nitrate (glyceryl trinitrate).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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) [syn: nitroglycerin , trinitroglycerin , glyceryl trinitrate , Nitrospan , Nitrostat ...
Usage examples of nitroglycerine.
Ethan had cracked the paraffin seal and wet the explosive mix of nitroglycerine and guncotton himself.
One of your principal ingredients in nitroglycerine, which every anarchist and revo knows can be mixed with paraffin, guncotton, a few other items to make plastique.
He opened the center drawer of a desk in what was to have been his HQ, a cleared secure building, and five pounds of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose blew him open and spread him all over the room, along with a colonel and his sergeant major.
He found that smokeless power is produced by colloiding nitrocellulose with special solvents followed by a drying process and that the nitroglycerine bonded with the nitrocellulose and would not separate in storage.
Two dollars would buy 1000 bennies, and for three bucks could get all the nitroglycerine tablets a heart patient could consume in a lifetime.
Jars of picric acid, nitric acid, carboys of other chemicals, packages labelled gunpowder, gun cotton and nitroglycerine, as well as carefully stoppered bottles of prussic acid, and the cyanides, arsenic and other poisons made the place bear the look of a veritable devil's workshop.
I can't even see a mechanical cigar lighter without thinking of filling one with nitroglycerine for somebody you don't like.