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nitrogen-fixing | nitrogenase | nitrogenise | nitrogenize | nitrogenous | nitroglycerin | nitroglycerine | nitrohydrochloric | nitrohydrochloric acid | nitrol | nitroleum

nitroglycerin

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ni=tro=glyc=er=in

CIDE DICTIONARY

nitroglycerinn. [Nitro- + glycerin.].
     A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate; also called trinitroglycerin and glyceryl trinitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.  [1913 Webster]
    " A great number of explosive compounds have been produced by mixing nitroglycerin with different substances; as, dynamite, or giant powder, nitroglycerin mixed with siliceous earth; lithofracteur, nitroglycerin with gunpowder, or with sawdust and nitrate of sodium or barium; Colonia powder, gunpowder with nitroglycerin; dualin, nitroglycerin with sawdust, or with sawdust and nitrate of potassium and some other substances; lignose, wood fiber and nitroglycerin."  [1913 Webster]

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