Devil_May_Kare t1_ixptinr wrote
Reply to comment by ZwischenzugZugzwang in TIL a few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerin for this heart condition. by Ganacsi
Dynamite. He invented dynamite. That's a way of stabilizing nitroglycerin so it won't explode if you look at it funny.
TNT is a different explosive that's inherently more stable than nitroglycerin, so it doesn't need extra stabilization.
ZwischenzugZugzwang t1_ixptl78 wrote
My mistake. AC/DC led me astray.
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