blasting gelatin

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   mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin

   Broaderexplosive mixture

Questions about blasting gelatin

What does blasting gelatin mean?

blasting gelatin means "mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin".

Is blasting gelatin a common word?

blasting gelatin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.