Word Meanings - VIGORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.

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• NITROGLYCERIN
  A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• BLASTOMERE
  One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• BLASTOIDEA
  One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• BLASTOID
  One of the Blastoidea.
• BLASTOGENESIS
  Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
• BLASTED
  1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
• BLASTEMAL
  Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
• EXPLOSIVE
  1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. 2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort
• BLASTY
  1. Affected by blasts; gusty. 2. Causing blast or injury. Boyle.
• BLASTOPORE
  The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. Note: Balfour.
• BLAST PIPE
  The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
• BLASTEMATIC
  Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
• BLASTIDE
  A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• PARABLAST
  A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.
• -BLAST
  A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
• OSTEOBLAST
  One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
• GYMNOBLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
• HAEMATOBLAST
  One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• INEXPLOSIVE
  Not explosive.
• EPIBLASTIC
  Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.