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		robryk on Sept 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An account of a serious medical emergency on a tra... As my siblings are saying, the same molecule but different concentration. This is the reason why you should handle dynamite in gloves: otherwise you absorb nitroglycerin through skin, lower your BP and faint.

lighttower on Sept 4, 2016 [–]

Dynamite is trinitrotoluene. Not nitroglycerin. Totally different biological activity.

fnj on Sept 4, 2016 | [–]

Excuse me; I don't think so. TNT is trinitrotoluene. Dynamite is a mixture of nitroglycerin, absorbents, and stabilizers.

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