nitroglycerine
Britishnoun
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He held more than 300 patents but his claim to fame before the Nobel Prizes was having invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with a compound that made the explosive more stable.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023
The team also administered nitroglycerine to rats, a common animal model, and looked at neuronal activity in regions of the brain that are active during migraine.
From Nature • Oct. 13, 2020
His own nitroglycerine pills were brought from his home, and I gave him one.
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2019
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it shifted to the southern hemisphere, reducing 390,000 of the 400,000 great whales that once roamed the Southern Ocean to margarine, nitroglycerine and other “marine ingredients”.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2018
Monarkite: ammonium and sodium nitrate, nitroglycerine, nitrocotton, starch, mineral jelly, salt.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
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