Nitroglycerin
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Nitroglycerin, also known as trinitroglycerol, nitro, glyceryl trinitrate, or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless or pale yellow, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating
Alfred Nobel's patent application from 1864.
Nitroglycerin in three different forms: intravenous, sublingual spray, and the nitroglycerin patch.
Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. Nobel is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He work
Nitroglycerin
…his discovery "pyroglycerin" and warned vigorously against its use as an explosive. Nitroglycerin was adopted as a commercially useful explosive by Alfred Nobel, who experimented with safer ways to handle the dangerous compound after his younger brother, Emil Oskar Nobel, and several factory workers were killed…
Nobel in 1896
The birthplace of Alfred Nobel at Norrlandsgatan in Stockholm
Alfred Nobel at a young age in the 1850s
Portrait of Nobel by Gösta Florman (1831–1900)