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nitroglycerin

[nahy-truh-glis-er-in] / ˌnaɪ trəˈglɪs ər ɪn /
NOUN
dynamite
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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

Drug interactions are largely similar, with the most important interaction being a contraindication to nitrate-containing drugs, such as nitroglycerin, commonly used to treat angina.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2018

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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