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Rubberized explosives are flat sheets of solid but flexible material, a mixture of a powdered explosive (commonly RDX or PETN) and a synthetic or natural rubber compound. Rubberized sheet explosives are commonly used for explosive welding and for various other industrial and military applications. Rubberized explosives can be cut to specific ...
The most commonly used explosives in mining today are ANFO based blends due to lower cost than dynamite. Before the advent of tunnel boring machines (TBMs), drilling and blasting was the only economical way of excavating long tunnels through hard rock, where digging is not possible.
A detonator is a device used to make an explosive or explosive device explode. [1] Detonators come in a variety of types, depending on how they are initiated (chemically, mechanically, or electrically) and details of their inner working, which often involve several stages.
For mixtures and types of explosives, see Category:Explosives. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ... Code of Conduct ...
Cordtex is a type of detonating cord generally used in mining. "Cordtex" and "Primacord" are two of many trademarks which have slipped into use as a generic term for detonating cord. [1] It uses an explosive core of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) inside its plastic coating.
Compatibility Group codes are used to indicate storage compatibility for HC/D Class 1 (explosive) materials. Letters are used to designate 13 compatibility groups as follows. A: Primary explosive substance (1.1A). B: An article containing a primary explosive substance and not containing two or more effective protective features. Some articles ...
A mining simulator is a type of simulation used for entertainment as well as in training purposes for mining companies. These simulators replicate elements of real-world mining operations on surrounding screens displaying three-dimensional imagery , motion platforms , and scale models of typical and atypical mining environments and machinery.
Is not used in blasting caps/detonators, it is used in the manufacture of lead azide but isn't a reliable/used primary explosive itself. I'm going to remove it from the list of explosives used in blasting caps.-- 84.163.111.92 ( talk ) 12:32, 19 January 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]