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Which explosive is sometimes used to treat a heart condition?

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  1. nitroglycerin patches. The same person who invented dynamite, died of a heart condition soon there after, and his doctor tried to get him to use nitroglycerin too.


  2. nitroglycerin and it can be administered in either pill form or worn as a patch

  3. According to Wikipedia: Nitroglycerin (NG), (US spelling) also known as nitroglycerine, (UK Spelling), trinitroglycerin, trinitroglycerine, 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane and glyceryl trinitrate, is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol. Since the 1860s, it has been used as an active ingredient in the manufacture of explosives, specifically dynamite, and as such is employed in the construction and demolition industries. Similarly, since the 1880s, it has been used by the military as an active ingredient, and a gellatinizer for nitrocellulose, in some solid propellants, such as Cordite and Ballistite. Nitroglycerin is also used medically as a vasodilator to treat heart conditions, such as angina and chronic heart failure.

  4. nitroglycerin

  5. Nitroglycerin is used to treat angina symptoms.  I learned this in medical school

  6. Nitroglycerin is

    Look on wikipedia.com

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