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
Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2021
The following day, Friday, June 26, Haupt and Wernecke went to the drugstore to buy nitroglycerin pills.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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