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
This adds to evidence that nitroglycerine causes an attack that closely mirrors what happens naturally.
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
Turns out that ball was a mixture of Turkish Delight and nitroglycerine, and objected to my hitting it.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 by Various
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