Noun
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)
Source: WordNetA few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerine for this heart condition, writing to a friend: "Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitro-glycerin, to be taken internally! Source: Internet
Cordite MD was developed to reduce barrel wear, its formula being 65% nitrocellulose, 30% nitroglycerine, and 5% petroleum jelly. Source: Internet
The tunnels were all made with the new dangerous nitroglycerine explosive which expedited work but caused some fatal accidents. Source: Internet
S. § 5269, 17 Stat. 366 (1872)) for transporting nitroglycerine and other explosives without proper safeguards (R. Source: Internet
Gelatin dynamites containing nitroglycerine have a degree of water resistance. Source: Internet