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Bacterial and Fungal Degradation of Nitroglycrine

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Nitroglycerin (NG) is also known as trinitroglycerine, glyceryl trinitrate or more formally: 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane. It is a heavy, colourless, oily, explosive liquid. Glycerol trinitrate (GTN) is a nitrate ester formed by the action of nitronium ions on the hydroxyl groups of glycerol.

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Bhatia, D., Grewal, A., Rathi, M., Malik, D.K. (2014). Bacterial and Fungal Degradation of Nitroglycrine. In: Singh, S. (eds) Biological Remediation of Explosive Residues. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01083-0_7

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