nitroglycerin

English

Etymology

From nitro- +‎ glycerin.

Noun

nitroglycerin (usually uncountable, plural nitroglycerins)

  1. Alternative spelling of nitroglycerine.
    • 1977 April 2, “Giant Crabs Infest West Coast”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
      Officials in San Bernardino, California, report what is feared to be one of the most uneradicable dangers to gay people yet: the armoured crab. Armoured crabs [] are impervious to not only traditional commercial remedies but to unorthodox cures as well, such as sand blasting, nitroglycerin, and plastic surgery.
    • 1998, Alvaro Morales, editor, Erectile Dysfunction: Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
      The observation that topical application of nitroglycerin to the penis may lead to erection adequate for sexual intercourse (Talley and Crawley 1985) has stimulated several investigations on the efficacy of this potential mode of treatment of erectile dysfunction.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnɪtroɡlɪt͡sɛrɪn]
  • IPA(key): [ˈnɪtroɡlɪt͡sɛriːn]

Noun

nitroglycerin m inan

  1. nitroglycerine

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

nitroglycerin n

  1. (organic chemistry) nitroglycerin

Declension

Declension of nitroglycerin
nominative genitive
singular indefinite nitroglycerin nitroglycerins
definite nitroglycerinet nitroglycerinets
plural indefinite
definite

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