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Same as Glycerin.

A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

ene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

e Angelica tree. See under Angelica. -- Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting.

A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.

an excellent jelly is made. J. Smith. -- Jelly powder, an explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly.

Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.

ted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.

An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

y (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.

A hypothetical radical of glycerin. [Obs.] Berzelius.

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.

The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

riod of revolution is about 164,78 years. Neptune powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin, -- used in blasting. -- Neptune's cup (Zoöl.), a very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge (Thalassema Neptuni).

An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

Nitroglycerin.