nitroglycerin
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Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023
And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
And that was before the idiotic failure to call 911 or at least grab the emergency nitroglycerin pill she knew was in the bedside drawer.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
The explosion of nitroglycerin is a chemical change because the gases produced are very different kinds of matter from the original substance.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
He raised the glass and held it up before the brightest lamp, handling it as if it were nitroglycerin.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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