nitrosaccharin

English

Etymology

nitro- +‎ saccharin

Noun

nitrosaccharin (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, guncotton, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nitrosaccharin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)