nitroglycerin
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Roy Scheider leads an international cast as one of four outlaws who accept $10,000 and legal citizenship for the job of driving nitroglycerin on hazardous South American roads to an oil well 200 miles away.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
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
According to Hayes, doctors said he was smart to have not taken his nitroglycerin pills because they could have put him in more danger.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020
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 carried aspirins and nitroglycerin tablets and who knew what else.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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