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Noun: Nitrospan
  1. A heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)
    - nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, Nitrostat
     
  2. Trade name for nitroglycerin used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris
    - Nitrostat

Type of: nitrate, vasodilative, vasodilator

Part of: blasting gelatin, cordite, dynamite

Encyclopedia: Nitrospan