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nitroglycerin

Length / number of characters: 13
Number of words: 1

  • a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol
  • A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion

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