Sentence examples for a blasting cap from inspiring English sources

It takes a detonator, like a blasting cap, to release the stored energy.

At 16, he was blinded while tinkering with a blasting cap.

More often, a blasting cap is used to set it off.

Usually, a strong shock wave from a blasting cap or an exploding wire detonator is needed to set it off.

Usually, a shock wave from a blasting cap or an exploding wire detonator is needed to set off PETN.

Alfred Nobel is best known for his invention of dynamite and an explosive device called a blasting cap, which inaugurated the modern use of high explosives.

Nitramon is insensitive to the action of a line of detonating cord, a commercial blasting cap, shock and friction, or the impact of small-calibre ammunition.

One example was telling: A single rifle cartridge, they said, can cost up to $4, often more than the price of a single blasting cap, the primary explosive used to detonate a makeshift bomb's main charge.

On the eve of his scheduled execution, Lingg committed suicide in his cell with a smuggled blasting cap which he reportedly held in his mouth like a cigar (the blast blew off half his face and he survived in agony for six hours).

They were supposed to connect these parts with an open circuit, since connecting a closed circuit would send current to an electric blasting cap.

He also invented a detonator or blasting cap which could be set off by lighting a fuse.