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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