nitroglycerine
pronunciation
How to pronounce nitroglycerine in British English:
UK [ˌnaɪtrəʊˈglɪsəri:n]
How to pronounce nitroglycerine in American English:
US [ˌnaɪtroʊˈglɪsərən]
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- Noun:
- 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)
Word Origin
- nitroglycerine (n.)
- also nitroglycerin, "explosive oily liquid," 1857, from nitro- + glycerin. So called either because it was obtained by treating glycerine with nitric and sulfuric acids or because it is essentially a nitrate (glyceryl trinitrate).
Example
- 1. That 's nitroglycerine , pure nitroglycerine !
- 2. You learned your husband had both viagra and nitroglycerine in his system .
- 3. In a typically punchy commentary in january he recommended avoiding british government debt , which was " resting on a bed of nitroglycerine " .
- 4. But she would swallow her nitroglycerine pills , struggle up the stairs to argue with another official , stay ardently angry , in the hope of making her motherland acknowledge " the sovereignty of the individual " .
- 5. Unlike nitroglycerine , it is not rapidly inactivated in the liver and a reliable clinical effect can be expected .