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
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
"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.
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
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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