"Nitroleum" is a word in ENGLISH
Nitroglycerin.
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An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is …
Read the complete definitionAn explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer …
Read the complete definitionA dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.
Read the complete definitionSame as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin.
Read the complete definitionSiliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.
Read the complete definitionAn explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.
Read the complete definitionAn explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.
Read the complete definitionAn explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
Read the complete definitionAn explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
Read the complete definitionA liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of …
Read the complete definitionAn explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
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