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Nitro-glycerine is decomposed differently if it is ignited as dynamite (i.e., kieselguhr dynamite), and if the gases are allowed to escape freely under a pressure nearly equal to that of the atmosphere.
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
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Nitro-glycerine when pure is quite stable at ordinary temperatures, and samples have been kept for years without any trace of decomposition.
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Nitro-glycerine has a sweet taste, and causes great depression and vertigo.
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Nitro-glycerine, 5 years old (a single drop taken) | 203-205
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Nitro-glycerine at its freezing point has a tendency to separate from its absorbing material, in fact to exude.
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_A_, Compressed Air Pipes; _G_, Nitro - glycerine enters from Nitrator; _N_, Nitro-glycerine to _P_; _L_, Lantern
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~ -- Nitro-glycerine is prepared upon the manufacturing scale by gradually adding glycerine to a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids of great strength.
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Nitro-glycerine explodes very violently by concussion.
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The composition is prepared as follows: -- Nitro-glycerine is thickened with pyroxyline to the consistency of raw rubber.
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