Sentences with phrase «of nitroglycerin»

The highly levered financial system is «like a truckload of nitroglycerin on a bumpy road,» Janus» Bill Gross warns.

Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin using diatomaceous earth as an adsorbent.

Neurologists studying headaches have long known an unusual fact: When a heart patient places a small pill of nitroglycerin under his tongue to ward off angina attacks, the nitroglycerin changes to nitric oxide in the body and immediately dilates blood vessels in the heart.

Over the next three decades, the future of nitroglycerin took two significant, divergent paths — one medical, and the other for construction and armaments.

One student built a model of nitroglycerin from tiny hearts, because nitroglycerin is used to treat heart attacks; but another student working on the same compound made her model out of dynamite sticks, since nitroglycerin is also used as an explosive.

It was a clock bomb, rather crudely made but fueled by ten gallons of nitroglycerin.

One of the greatest of all suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field over dangerous mountain roads.

Future papers will address the potential anti-cancer uses of nitroglycerin (used to treat angina), itraconazole (a common anti-fungal), diclofenac (an over-the-counter painkiller), and clarithromycin (an antibiotic).