[sammyg2]

Nitroglycerin is what the laymen call it. Glyceroltrinitrate is the real name and yes, I've made it.
My father worked for Hercules when I was young, his specialty was explosives and shape charges back when there was very little known about the field. He was a rain-man type of engineer who wasn't good at people skills. The only way he knew to interact with me was to teach me chemistry. I had the periodic table basically memorized when I was six.
My mom didn't like it when we filled her pressure cooker with nitric acid, but at least I wasn't running wild.
We also made trinitrotoluene.