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    BLASTING GELATIN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerinplay

    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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