nitroglycerin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nitroglycerin
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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Nitroglycerin, a heart medication for angina and heart attacks, is converted to NO to help relax the blood vessels and increase oxygen flow through the body.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Nitroglycerin becomes so sensitive when it absorbs moisture that even a slight shake can set it off.
From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2019
Nitroglycerin is very dangerous because it explodes easily; neon poses almost no hazard because it is very unreactive.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
He went to his satchel again and took out a bottle of white tablets marked "Nitroglycerin."
From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry
If the warning lasts some minutes, the patient should carry with him, a bottle of uncoated one-hundredth-grain tabloids of Nitroglycerin, replacing the screw cap with a cork, so that they can quickly be extracted.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George
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