Nitroglycerine Molecule
Nitroglycerin, also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, trinitroglycerine, 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane and glyceryl trinitrate, is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol. Since the 1860s, it has been used as an active ingredient in the manufacture of explosives, specifically dynamite, and as such is employed in the construction and demolition industries. Similarly, since the 1880s, it has been used by the military as an active ingredient, and a gellatinizer for nitrocellulose, in some solid propellants, such as Cordite and Ballistite. Liquid nitroglycerin was widely banned elsewhere as well and this finally led to Alfred Nobel & Company's development of dynamite in 1867, made by mixing the nitroglycerin with the diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) found in the Krümmel hills. Similar mixtures, such as dualine (1867), lithofracteur (1869), and gelignite (1875), mixed nitroglycerin with other inert absorbents—many different combinations were tried in order to get around Nobel's tightly controlled patents. Dynamites containing nitrocellulose, which increase the viscosity of the mix, are commonly known as "gelatins." Nitroglycerin is also used medically as a vasodilator to treat heart conditions, such as angina and chronic heart failure.
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