The Nintendo Gamecube was originally code named 'Dolphin', with the GPU being called flipper, Also the Nintendo DS codename nitro was ditched after development. From Wordnik.com. [Nintendo Wii News] Reference
The solution, after standing for about an hour, is poured in a fine stream into a large volume of water, by which the "nitro" body is precipitated as a white flocculent mass. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
Sometimes the pickguard of this vintage Fender is called a "nitro" pickguard. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
(And yes, we know some of these things are fueled with alcohol and "nitro," whatever that is, but still ...). From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
Because of the movie "The Fast and the Furious" many people today think that the word "nitro" means having something extra on your car that boosts its speed. From Wordnik.com. [Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'] Reference
Those of most importance are nitro-glycerine and nitro-cellulose. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
Dynamite. 75 per cent. nitro-glycerine; 25 per cent. infusorial earth. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
When weaker acids are used, lower grades of nitro-cellulose are formed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
The powder was in gelatin form, being made with nitro-glycerine as a base. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference
And what shall we say to performances such as the explosion of nitro-glycerine?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
An explosive composed of an absorbent, like earth, combined with nitro-glycerine. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
I think the tendency would be to NOT check nitro filled tires as frequently as air filled. From Wordnik.com. [Nitrogen in tires - Q&A] Reference
Nevertheless, this compound is a makeshift as compared with the nitro-cellulose used by this Government. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
The original patent of Baur, obtained in 1889, covered the tri-nitro-derivative of tertiary butyl xylene. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
The present German powder is made from such a compound of tri-nitro-cellulose and soluble nitro-cellulose. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Sulphides may also be tested for, qualitatively, with lead acetate solution, or test-paper of sodium nitro-prusside. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
Giant Powder. 36 per cent. nitro-glycerine; 48 per cent. nitrate of potash; 8 per cent. of sulphur; 8 per cent. charcoal. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
The two manufactures, however, which seem to lead in the demand for glycerine are of nitro-glycerine and of oleomargarine. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
He was standing at the entrance of a cosy little funk-hole, his boots and tunic undone, sniffing the morning nitro-glycerine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917] Reference
The celluloid industry and the nitro-cellulose industry owe their very existence and much of their development to the chemist. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The fresh air soon blew away their headaches, caused by the fumes from the nitro-glycerine, which was the basis of the powder. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference
Those not containing a nitro group may be prepared by the oxidation of the corresponding mixed hydrazo compounds with mercuric oxide. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Also a great many of the first smokeless powders were made of low grade gun-cotton combined with nitro-glycerine in varying proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
The tunnel had not meant to be malicious, but merely to do the proper thing (it had not even disturbed the nitro-glycerine in the smithy). From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
The mixed nitrate from the benzoate is denitrated to a cellulose amidobenzoate, which confirms the localisation of a nitro-group in the benzoyl residue. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
Gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, in fact, nearly all the explosives that are used the world over for all sorts of purposes, are nitrogen compounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
Somewhat later, they found that it could be prepared from diazobenzene imide, provided a nitro group were present in the ortho or para position to the diazo group. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
With the two benzoyl groups converted into nitro-benzoyl in each product, the limit of the ester reaction with the cellulose residue is reached at the third OH group. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
With care, nitro-glycerine can be kept many years without deterioration; and it has been heated in a sand-bath to 80° C. for a whole day without explosion or alteration. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
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