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blasting powder

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noun

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

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Origin of blasting powder

First recorded in 1865–70

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for blasting powder

The living, the tools, the blasting-powder, and the help eat it up faster than Orion's salary can grow.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
I forgot the unhappy accident of the blasting-powder—all the mortifications and disappointments of my life.
The Blunders of a Bashful Man|Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Go over to Hodgen's about those tools; he has not sent them yet: and the blasting-powder, too, has not come down.
Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I.|Charles James Lever
Well, sir, like a flash of blasting-powder this thought came to me.
The Cottage of Delight|Will N. Harben

They went to work on it with pick and shovel, then with drill and blasting-powder.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine