nitroglycerin
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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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
Men too broke to escape a sweaty Latin American village leap at the chance to earn $2,000 apiece driving an emergency shipment of nitroglycerin 300 miles to extinguish an oil inferno for an American company.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2019
The following day, Friday, June 26, Haupt and Wernecke went to the drugstore to buy nitroglycerin pills.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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