nitroglycerin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nitroglycerin
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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Example Sentences
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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2021
Since then, he has kept nitroglycerin pills in his left pocket for pain relief.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2020
The explosion of nitroglycerin is a chemical change because the gases produced are very different kinds of matter from the original substance.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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