Um... From a purely chemical point of view, it *is* a little implausible. First, it's not glycerine, but glycerol, which is a backbone of three carbon atoms, each with a single hydroxyl group attached (C3H8O3). It's these hydroxyl groups that are the active sites which can be nitrated, hence the 'tri' in the name (actually, and to be super picky, the hydroxys are converted, not to nitro groups but to nitrato groups. The compound is really poorly named :-) )

However, once you start invoking the marketing department, all bets are off and you could call it literally anything you want.

David Shaw

On Sat, 26 May 2018, 20:49 Timothy Collinson, <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood) and came up with quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of homage to triticale being turned into quadrotriticale for Star Trek's Trouble With Tribbles episode. But is the nature of glycerine such that that's just completely ridiculous?

cheers

tc