A heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat).

synoniemen: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin.

Roget 406: snap etc. v.; rapping etc. v.; decrepitation, crepitation; report, thud; burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley.    squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M80, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun.    implosion.    bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727.    [explosive substances] gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms) 727.    whack, wham, pow.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: nitroglycerine
Pools: nitrogliceryna