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BLASTING GELATIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("blasting gelatin" is a kind of...):
explosive mixture (a mixture that is explosive)
Meronyms (substance of "blasting gelatin"):
cellulose nitrate; guncotton; nitrocellulose; nitrocotton (a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives)
glyceryl trinitrate; nitroglycerin; nitroglycerine; Nitrospan; Nitrostat; trinitroglycerin (a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat))
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