nitroglycerin

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Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023

And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021

The explosion of nitroglycerin is a chemical change because the gases produced are very different kinds of matter from the original substance.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The following day, Friday, June 26, Haupt and Wernecke went to the drugstore to buy nitroglycerin pills.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple