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Definition of Blasting cap

1. Noun. A small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blasting Cap

Literary usage of Blasting cap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Prime a small dynamite cartridge и it electric blasting cap, and place it in ... Don't tap or attempt to open a blasting cap or electric blasting cap. ..."

2. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
""To prime a dynamite or other high explosive cartridge with blasting cap and ... This hole should not be much larger in diameter than the blasting cap, ..."

3. Rock Excavating and Blasting by John Joseph Cosgrove (1913)
"Fuse Attached to blasting cap. detonator must be used, which in turn may be fired by a fuse. To prepare the cap and fuse for use, the fuse is cut off square ..."

4. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal: A Textbook by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1922)
""To prime a dynamite or other high explosive cartridge with blasting cap and ... This hole should not be much larger in diameter than the blasting cap, ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"The third case, defective detonating caps, is one which very rarely occurs in our method of manufacture, as each electric blasting cap is tested twice ..."

6. The Handbook for Practical Farmers: Dealing with the More Important Aspects by Hugh Findlay (1920)
"Sometimes in the cutting the end becomes flattened, thereby making the end of the fuse too large to enter the blasting cap. When this happens, squeeze the ..."

7. Handbook of Mining Details (1912)
"Don't allow priming, the placing of a blasting cap or electric fuse in ... Don't fasten a blasting cap to the fuse with the teeth or by flattening it with a ..."

8. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Prime a small dynamite cartridge и it electric blasting cap, and place it in ... Don't tap or attempt to open a blasting cap or electric blasting cap. ..."

9. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
""To prime a dynamite or other high explosive cartridge with blasting cap and ... This hole should not be much larger in diameter than the blasting cap, ..."

10. Rock Excavating and Blasting by John Joseph Cosgrove (1913)
"Fuse Attached to blasting cap. detonator must be used, which in turn may be fired by a fuse. To prepare the cap and fuse for use, the fuse is cut off square ..."

11. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal: A Textbook by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1922)
""To prime a dynamite or other high explosive cartridge with blasting cap and ... This hole should not be much larger in diameter than the blasting cap, ..."

12. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"The third case, defective detonating caps, is one which very rarely occurs in our method of manufacture, as each electric blasting cap is tested twice ..."

13. The Handbook for Practical Farmers: Dealing with the More Important Aspects by Hugh Findlay (1920)
"Sometimes in the cutting the end becomes flattened, thereby making the end of the fuse too large to enter the blasting cap. When this happens, squeeze the ..."

14. Handbook of Mining Details (1912)
"Don't allow priming, the placing of a blasting cap or electric fuse in ... Don't fasten a blasting cap to the fuse with the teeth or by flattening it with a ..."

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