Nitroglycerine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NITROGLYCERINE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a powerful explosive, also NITROGLYCERIN
• an explosive yellow liquid made by nitrating glycerol, used in explosives such as dynamite.
• a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)
• a powerful explosive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an oily explosive poisonous liquid C3H5N3O9 used chiefly in making dynamite and in medicine as a vasodilator

Words related to NITROGLYCERINE

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Words that contain NITROGLYCERINE

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How to use NITROGLYCERINE in a sentence

• We have a practical illustration of this truth in the explosion of nitro-glycerine.
• The little boat had been made with a thin false bottom in which was placed a quantity of nitro-glycerine.
• Four pounds of nitroglycerine are enough to work fearful havoc and mischief.
• The catching of the bank robbers solved the nitroglycerine mystery.
• But Cyrus Harding knew that nitro-glycerine would explode by a shock.
• It was therefore necessary to manufacture some more nitro-glycerine, and the nitro-glycerine did its accustomed work.
• The heat of formation of nitro-glycerine, as deduced from the heat of combustion by M.
• After this preliminary washing, the nitro-glycerine is drawn off into indiarubber buckets, and poured down the conduit to the filter house.
• Across the top of this tank is stretched a frame of flannel, through which the nitroglycerine has to filter.
• The out- turn of nitro-glycerine also will be very low.
• There will probably never be more than an inch of nitro-glycerine at the most, and seldom that.
• The treatment of the waste acid from the manufacture of nitro-glycerine is somewhat different.
• It has been used in percussion caps, being stronger and quicker than nitro-glycerine.
• In the year 1867 Nobel produced dynamite by absorbing the nitro-glycerine in an inert substance, forming a plastic mass.
• A good guhr should absorb four times its weight of nitro-glycerine, and should then form a comparatively dry mixture.
• The guhr thus prepared is taken up to the danger area, and mixed with nitro-glycerine.
• As the gun-cotton contains too little oxygen for complete combustion, and the nitro-glycerine an excess, a mixture of the two substances is very beneficial.
• If this process be carried too far, we of course lose the advantages due to the presence of nitro-glycerine.
• The dry substance may now be wrapped in filter paper, the whole weighed, and the nitro-glycerine extracted in the Soxhlet apparatus with ether.
• The residue C may contain traces of nitro-glycerine, resin, or sulphur.
• Composition of waste acids from nitro-glycerine, 43.
• Gases formed by the decomposition of nitro-glycerine, 18.

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