Blasting-powder


a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
Historical Examples

Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. Charles James Lever
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete Albert Bigelow Paine
The Cottage of Delight Will N. Harben
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete Albert Bigelow Paine
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines R.M. Ballantyne
The Blunders of a Bashful Man Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Lone Pine R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend
She H. Rider Haggard

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