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Alfred Nobel, the founder of Nobel prizes was once called the ‘merchant of death’ for which of the following inventions?

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Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867 by stabilizing nitroglycerin with kieselguhr, revolutionizing construction and warfare. A mistaken French obituary titled him merchant of death for profiting from explosives causing mass destruction, motivating him to create Nobel Prizes.

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