Nitro
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Examples
- We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was followed by the discovery of nitro-glycerine, a still more powerful explosive agent--too powerful and uncontrollable for guns as originally made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1846 a new and distinct development in explosives was made in the discovery of gun cotton by Sch?nbein, and of nitro-glycerine in 1847 by Sobrero. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Nitro-glycerine only differs in its manufacture from gun cotton in that glycerine is acted upon by the acids, instead of cotton. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Nitro-glycerine is made in a somewhat similar way by treating glycerine with nitric and sulphuric acids. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Willie