• 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 theaction of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid.It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilutesolution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.[Written also nitroglycerine.]


    Nitroglycerin meaning & definition 1 of Nitroglycerin.


  • What the smokes in that cigarette box on the table just happen to be laced with.

    Nitroglycerin meaning & definition 2 of Nitroglycerin.


  • Substance which is almost as versitle as peanut butter

    Nitroglycerin is a highly explosive substance that is not available to the general public due to its extremely unstable chemical complex

    Nitroglycerin meaning & definition 3 of Nitroglycerin.


  • A very high powered explosive that is very unstable and can explode for the slightest shake or change in temperature, and is kept in snowy areas that are cold to keep it more stable.

    Nitroglycerin meaning & definition 4 of Nitroglycerin.


  • An explosive yellow liquid made by nitrating glycerol, used in explosives such as dynamite. It is also used in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.

    Nitroglycerin meaning & definition 5 of Nitroglycerin.

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