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Ethylene glycol dinitrate: Used to reduce the freezing point of dynamite, but also an explosive itself, used in propellants and in improvised explosive devices; chemically 2,2'-oxybisethanol dinitrate, also called Diethyleneglycol Dinitrate (DEGN), dinitrodiglycol or DEGDN [e]
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- Aliphatic nitrate esters [r]: Explosive compounds produced by O-type nitration in which a nitro group is attached to an oxygen atom of the compound being nitrated. (U.S. Army) [e]
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- Dynamite [r]: A family of explosives, first invented by Alfred Nobel, in which nitroglycerin is adsorbed onto inert or more stable explosive materials in order to reduce its sensitivity; widely used in commercial excavation [e]