Nitroglycerin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nitroglycerinCordite
A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin guncotton and mineral jelly and used by the British army and in other services In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords of various diameters resembling brown twine which are dried and cut to length A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M D...
Dynamite
An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert porous solid as infusorial earth sawdust etc It is safer than nitroglycerin being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks or from spontaneous decomposition...
VerbarLithofracteur
An explosive compound of nitroglycerin See Nitroglycerin...
Ballistite
A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin...
Carbonite
An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin wood meal and some nitrate as that of sodium...
Dualin
An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds It is inferior to dynamite and is more liable to explosion...
VerbarKieselguhr
Siliceous earth diatomaceous earth specifically porous infusorial earth used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite...
nitro
Nitroglycerin...
Nitrogelatin
An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin...
Nitroglycerin
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 also called trinitroglycerin and glyceryl trinitrate 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...
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