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How Nitroglycerin Works?

How can nitroglycerin be both highly explosive and also be used for treating heart patients? How can nitroglycerin be both highly explosive and also be used for treating heart patients?
Sun, 20 Dec 2009
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It's good for heart patients because its a vasodilating agent. It dilates coronary arteries, restoring blood/oxygen supply to the heart, this stops the pain one gets with angina. Because of it's chemical properties it's also an ingredient in explosives, it isn't used alone as an explosive though.
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How Nitroglycerin Works?

It s good for heart patients because its a vasodilating agent. It dilates coronary arteries, restoring blood/oxygen supply to the heart, this stops the pain one gets with angina. Because of it s chemical properties it s also an ingredient in explosives, it isn t used alone as an explosive though.