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Nitrocellulose: Explosive and Film-Forming – Explore the Production of Nitrocellulose by Nitrating Cellulose, Its Highly Flammable And Explosive Nature (Used In Gun Cotton And Propellants), And Its Use In Lacquers, Films (Early Photographic Film), And Plastics (Celluloid), A Highly Reactive Derivative of Cellulose.

Nitrocellulose: From Ticking Time Bomb to Silver Screen Star (and Back Again?) (A Lecture on the Explosive, Cinematic, and Surprisingly Versatile Derivative of Cellulose) (Professor Explodo-Pants, Chair of Combustible Curiosities,…
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Nitroglycerin (C₃H₅N₃O₉), The Explosive Liquid: From Dynamite to Medicine – Explore the Chemical Structure and Highly Explosive Nature of Nitroglycerin, Its Use as a Key Component in Dynamite (Stabilized by Alfred Nobel), And Its Surprising Medical Use as a Vasodilator to Treat Angina, Highlighting the Dual and Sometimes Contradictory Applications of Powerful Chemicals.

Nitroglycerin (C₃H₅N₃O₉), The Explosive Liquid: From Dynamite to Medicine (A Lecture on a Jekyll-and-Hyde Molecule) (Professor Boom's voice echoes with theatrical gravitas... and a slight tremor, possibly from past experiments.)…