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nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin is a 13 letter word which starts with the letter N and ends with the letter N for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word nitroglycerin is a 13 letter word that has 5 syllable 's . The syllable division for nitroglycerin is: ni-tro-glyc-er-in


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