nitroglycerin

     

Nitroglycerin

Trivia about nitroglycerin

  • A "dynamite" medicine for hearts
  • In large quantities it's an explosive; in pill form it helps heart patients
  • Don't worry about exploding when using this heart medicine -- it's too diluted
  • A form of this explosive is often used to treat angina
  • This chemical explosive called blasting oil was discovered in 1846 by Ascanio Sobrero
  • (13)C3H5N3O9, it can yield explosive results