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Nobel invented it to end war with horror, then felt so guilty he funded peace prizes.
means A powerful explosive made of nitroglycerin stabilized in an absorbent base, safe enough to handle and transport — and by extension, anything or anyone of startling explosive force or impact.
from From Greek 'dynamis,' meaning power — the same root that gives us 'dynamic' and 'dynamo.' Alfred Nobel coined the name in the 1860s for his invention: nitroglycerin, a liquid explosive too unstable and deadly to use safely, mixed into a porous absorbent material (he used a type of sedimentary rock) that tamed it into a stable, shapeable stick. The name was pure marketing-by-etymology — he reached straight for the Greek word for raw power and stamped it on the label.
- secret ingredient
- stabilized nitroglycerin with sawdust-like absorbent clay
- inventor's regret
- Alfred Nobel created Peace Prize to offset his legacy
- premature obituary
- a newspaper mistakenly ran his obituary, calling him merchant of death
- name origin
- from Greek dynamis, meaning power