blasting gelatin
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Noun (1)
- mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerinType of explosive mixtureMade of nitroglycerin, cellulose nitrate
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Blasting gelatin
an explosive, containing about ninety-five parts of nitroglycerin and five of collodion.
From the entry Gelatine.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54