Let's talk about nitroglycerin

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making something have "roughly as much utility" as something else is very nearly giving up on having it at all, because why have two different things that do the same thing? well, apart from all those other things that also already do the same things as each other

noun: utility

1. the state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial.

An axe can have as much utility as a shovel, or closer to the point, dynamite can have as much utility as detcord.

At current, nitroglycerine has little to no utility.