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nitroglycerin

/nahy-truh-glis-er-in/US // ˌnaɪ trəˈglɪs ər ɪn //

硝酸甘油,硝化甘油,硝酰甘油,硝基甘油

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  1. 1

    Chemistry, Pharmacology.

    • : a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C3H5N3O9, prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.

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Examples

  • Having Lou Dobbs and Rick Kaplan reporting to me at the same time was like holding a canister of nitroglycerin in each hand.

  • These are probably largely due to incomplete detonation, by which part of the nitroglycerin is vaporized or merely burned.

  • Like nitroglycerin, the common dynamites freeze at a temperature of from 42 to 46 F.

  • It is used in medicine and in the manufacture of the explosives nitroglycerin and dynamite.

  • A hot-water bag was placed with the nitroglycerin and all was wrapped in a heavy blanket to protect it from Jack Frost.

  • Nobel, however, had discovered that when nitroglycerin was absorbed in infusorial earth, it was rendered much less sensitive.