amyl nitrate
noun
1
: a colorless liquid ester C5H11NO3 of amyl alcohol and nitric acid
2
: amyl nitrite
—not used technically
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Word spread that, in addition to being a remedy for heart pain, amyl nitrate produced a nice high that lasted generally more than 30 seconds, and generally less than a few minutes.
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Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
The traveling party Horse Meat Disco had commandeered the San Francisco bar, filling it with pounding dance music and the carnal stench of amyl nitrate poppers, but for three and a half hours, JP’s group sat at a booth behind a curtain passing back and forth their little white baggie of ketamine.
—Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
No, those are amyl nitrate.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
Some routines, especially the one in which Reverend Mother repeatedly sniffs amyl nitrate, then rolls about the floor in a stupor, are interminable.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
Snyder didn’t send him to the hospital but instead treated him with amyl nitrate for angina
—Marc Siegel, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
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Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
The traveling party Horse Meat Disco had commandeered the San Francisco bar, filling it with pounding dance music and the carnal stench of amyl nitrate poppers, but for three and a half hours, JP’s group sat at a booth behind a curtain passing back and forth their little white baggie of ketamine.
—Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
No, those are amyl nitrate.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
Some routines, especially the one in which Reverend Mother repeatedly sniffs amyl nitrate, then rolls about the floor in a stupor, are interminable.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
Snyder didn’t send him to the hospital but instead treated him with amyl nitrate for angina
—Marc Siegel, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
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“Amyl nitrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amyl%20nitrate. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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