means
nitroglycerin (It is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive
liquid most commonly produced by treating
glycerol with
nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the
nitric acid ester) and has greek roots as the french word was formed
from the greek ancient word νίτρο (nitro), which however (in the
Antiquity) was a loan word from simitic languages or from Egypt, and
the word glycerol
which derives from the greek word γλυκυς/γλυκερος(glykys/glykeros)
meaning sweet/very sweet. In Turkish is nitrogliserin.
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