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Q: Why nitroglycerin is used as an explosive?
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Which explosive is sometimes used to treat a heart condition?

Nitroglycerin (but not as an "explosive").


What explosive chemical is also used for a heart attack?

Nitroglycerin


Which explosive is sometimes used to treat hearta condition?

nitro's nitroglycerin


What explosive is made from glycerol?

Nitroglycerin


How do you make explosive dynamite?

put nitroglycerin in clay.


How has dynamite evolved?

The first real explosive was Nitroglycerin. It was far too dangerous for stationary use. A much safer explosive called dynamite. This includes nitroglycerin and wood pulp. That's about it . Surely gunpowder was they first commonly available explosive? Nitroglycerin came several hundred years later.


Is nitroglycerin the same as nitroglycerine?

Nitroglycerin is the explosive component of dynamite but it is not in its pure form in dynamite: it is stabilized in a clay-like substance. Pure nitroglycerin is to unstable to be stored or transported for everyday used. It is very easy to set off accidentally, hence the need to be stabilized.


What is the major constituent of dynamite?

The main explosive ingredient in dynamite is nitroglycerin.


How do you spell dinmite?

The likely word is dynamite (early nitroglycerin-based explosive).


What is the difference between nitrogen and nitro?

Nitrogen is an element with 7 protons. Its chemical symbol is "N" Nitro is a common short term used for nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid with the chemical formula C3H5N3O9


What is the material used in dynamite?

It is made out of explosive materials and compounds. Such as potassium nitrate and ammonium nitrate which are explosive and used to make bombs. It first have a hard case filled with sawdust or a hard material that absorbs energy. That material is soaked with nitroglycerin which is an explosive chemical. Then a charger or cap covers it attached to a plug or fuse that detonates it. But getting nitroglycerin is sometimes dangerous so people mostly use potassium nitrate of ammonium nitrate for making dynamite.


What is nitroglycerin?

Nitroglycerin (C3H5N3O9) is a yellow liquid that's explosive near sudden heat. It's used to produce dynamite and as a medicine vasodilator.