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  2. Drilling and blasting - Wikipedia

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    Drilling and blasting is the controlled use of explosives and other methods, such as gas pressure blasting pyrotechnics, to break rock for excavation. It is practiced most often in mining , quarrying and civil engineering such as dam , tunnel or road construction.

  3. Pulverized coal injection method - Wikipedia

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    The PCI method is based on the simple concept of primary air (termed the "conveying gas") carrying pulverized coal which injected through a lance to the tuyere (mid-bottom inlet of a blast furnace), then mixed with secondary hot air (termed the "blast") supplied through a blowpipe in the tuyere and then piped to a furnace to create a balloon ...

  4. Gunpowder - Wikipedia

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    For instance, power grades of black powder, unsuitable for use in firearms but adequate for blasting rock in quarrying operations, are called blasting powder rather than gunpowder with standard proportions of 70% nitrate, 14% charcoal, and 16% sulfur; blasting powder may be made with the cheaper sodium nitrate substituted for potassium nitrate ...

  5. List of Eberron modules and sourcebooks - Wikipedia

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    Utilizing this license, Keith Baker has published multiple non-official Eberron themed adventures and supplements for the 5th Edition on the Dungeon Masters Guild: Curtain Call: A Sharn Adventure (August 2018, PDF) [35] Trust No One (October 2018, PDF) [36] Morgrave Miscellany (March 2019, PDF) [37] [38]

  6. Sandblasting - Wikipedia

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    Portable blast systems use either a welded pressure vessel, to overcome nozzle backpressure, to store and transfer abrasive media into a connected blast hose from a higher pressure differential, or use a non-pressurized hopper, which utilizes a process called dual induction, which conveys abrasive media to a tandem blast nozzle using an air ...

  7. Explosives shipping classification system - Wikipedia

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    Blasting caps, ingitors 1.1C Rocket motors, smokeless powder. 1.1D Detonating cord, explosive boosters, blackpowder, most secondary explosives. 1.1E 1.1F 1.1G Flash powder, Bulk Salutes, very large fireworks 1.1J Liquid fuelled cruise missiles and torpedoes, incendiary bombs 1.1L 1.2 Projection, no mass explosion: 1.2B Detonating fuzes 1.2C

  8. List of Forgotten Realms modules and sourcebooks - Wikipedia

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    Title Author Date Subject Pages Item # Levels ISBN; FRC—Forgotten Realms Companion (or Computer) are modules related to SSI computer games and form a linked sequence.: Ruins of Adventure

  9. Detonating cord - Wikipedia

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    Detonating cord (also called detonation cord, detcord, detacord, blasting rope, or primer cord) is a thin, flexible plastic tube usually filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, pentrite). With the PETN exploding at a rate of approximately 6,400 m/s (21,000 ft/s), any common length of detonation cord appears to explode instantaneously.