硝化甘油

xiāohuàgānyóu

noun

Meanings

1 nitroglycerine (explosive)
2 (medicine) glyceryl trinitrate, used to treat angina

Characters

saltpeter; nitrate

to transform; -ate (chem.)

Examples

硝化甘油非常不稳定，受到轻微震动就会爆炸。

Xiāohuà gānyóu fēicháng bù wěndìng, shòudào qīngwēi zhèndòng jiù huì bàozhà.

Nitroglycerine is highly unstable and explodes from even a slight shock.

心绞痛发作时含一片硝化甘油可以缓解。

Xīnjiǎotòng fāzuò shí hán yī piàn xiāohuà gānyóu kěyǐ huǎnjiě.

Holding a tablet of nitroglycerine under the tongue can relieve angina attacks.

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history

Discovered in 1847 by Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero, then tamed by Alfred Nobel in 1867 by absorbing it into diatomaceous earth — that mixture, dynamite, made him rich enough to fund the Nobel Prizes. Today the same compound saves heart-attack patients as a vasodilator pill.

Stroke Order

硝 xiāo

化 huà

甘 gān

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