nitroglycerin

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Roy Scheider leads an international cast as one of four outlaws who accept $10,000 and legal citizenship for the job of driving nitroglycerin on hazardous South American roads to an oil well 200 miles away.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

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

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021

According to Hayes, doctors said he was smart to have not taken his nitroglycerin pills because they could have put him in more danger.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

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

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann