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blasting gelatin

American

[blas-ting jel-uh-tn, blahs‐] / ˈblæs tɪŋ ˌdʒɛl ə tn, ˈblɑs‐ /

noun

a type of plastic dynamite containing about 7 percent of nitrocellulose, used chiefly in underwater work.

Etymology

Origin of blasting gelatin

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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Marine "Gunny" Deacon Arnold concocts anti-invasion mines with blasting gelatin stuffed into lengths of sewer pipe.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1934 he got a summer job tossing hunks of blasting gelatin from a whaleboat off the East Coast so that the recorded shock waves could be used to study the sediments on the bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "blasting gelatin" thus discovered proved to be so insensitive to shock that it could be safely transported or fired from a cannon.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.

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