nitroglycerine

Variant of nitroglycerin

or nitroglycerine

noun

a thick, pale-yellow, flammable, explosive oil, CH(ONO), prepared by treating glycerin with a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids: used in medicine and in making dynamites and propellants
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