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• a variation of nitroglycerin.

nitroglycerine

British  

/ -ˈɡlɪsərɪn, ˌnaɪtrəʊˈɡlɪsəˌriːn /

noun

1. Also called: trinitroglycerine.  a pale yellow viscous explosive liquid substance made from glycerol and nitric and sulphuric acids and used in explosives, and in medicine as a vasodilator. Formula: CH 2 NO 3 CHNO 3 CH 2 NO 3

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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

This provides reassuring evidence for researchers who use nitroglycerine in rodent models of migraine for drug discovery.

From Nature ● Oct. 13, 2020

He added that he had left his nitroglycerine at home.

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

For ballistite the nitrocellulose is beaten up with nitroglycerine in water.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various