Sentence examples for nitroglycerin from inspiring English sources

Glycerin reacted with nitric and sulfuric acid forms the explosive nitroglycerin (or nitroglycerine).

Thus 40 percent straight dynamite contained 40 percent nitroglycerin and 60 percent dope.

He discovered that he could duplicate this by the direct addition of 7 to 8 percent of collodion-type nitrocotton to nitroglycerin and that lesser quantities of nitrocotton decreased the viscosity and enabled him to add other active ingredients.

After 1883 the use of nitroglycerin was, with a few unimportant exceptions, restricted to oil-well shooting.

He mixed 40 percent of a lower nitrogen content, more soluble nitrocellulose, and 60 percent of nitroglycerin.

Nitrostarch explosives, however, do not produce the headaches from skin contact that are characteristic of mixtures containing nitroglycerin.

Modified cordite compositions containing other organic nitrates, replacing the nitroglycerin, were introduced during World War II.

Several nations began to achieve success with smokeless powder of nitrated cellulose and usually some nitroglycerin.

The hazards involved in preparing large quantities of nitroglycerin have been greatly reduced by widespread adoption of continuous nitration processes.

An anginal attack can be relieved by rest or by taking nitroglycerin or other drugs that relax (and thus dilate) the blood vessels.

After the straight dynamites and gelatins, the next important advance in dynamite was the substitution of ammonium nitrate for part of the nitroglycerin to give a safer and less expensive product.