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Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin Meaning & Definition
Nitroglycerin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nitroglycerin?

[n] a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nitroglycerin: glyceryl trinitrate | nitroglycerine | Nitrospan | Nitrostat | trinitroglycerin

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nitroglycerin:

See Also | blasting gelatin | cordite | dynamite | nitrate | vasodilative | vasodilator

Nitroglycerin In Webster's Dictionary

\Ni`tro*glyc"er*in\, n. [Nitro- + glycerinn.] (Chem.) 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}. 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}. [Written also {nitroglycerine}.] Note: 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.

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