Blasting Powder

Word BLASTING POWDER
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When you're biting into a waffle or other baked good whose batter has not been mixed well, and you receive a "blast" of uncooked dry ingredients - including the baking powder used to make it rise. Urban Dictionary

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The word "blasting-powder" in example sentences

Suppose a charge of blasting-powder had to be exploded in ❋ Unknown (2008)

They commenced with extinguishing a serious fire which burst from the waste-room — by no means pleasant when close to kegs of blasting-powder carefully sewn up in canvas. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They went to work on it with pick and shovel, then with drill and blasting-powder. ❋ Unknown (2003)

[It is stated that rain may be brought down by the explosion of dynamite and blasting-powder attached to oxyhydrogen balloons and kite-tails.] ❋ Various (N/A)

McMullin's horse-shed, before the diuretic effect of tin flavored with blasting-powder could be observed by the attentive eye of science. ❋ Various (N/A)

To get an idea into your head, one wants a proper outfit -- drills, blasting-powder, and so on. ❋ Unknown (1928)

It can begin only when persuasion ends, when arguments fitted to move minds are replaced by the blasting-powder fitted to move rocks and hills. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

If a body desires to talk private business with one of the editors, he must call him outside, for no hint milder than blasting-powder or nitroglycerin would be likely to move the bores out of listening-distance. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

And even then only dynamite or blasting-powder could have forced a path, and it would have been exceedingly difficult to handle such materials within the tunnel without blocking the approach completely, while leaving open the farther exit. ❋ H. M. Egbert (1919)

Tillou instructed the others in prospecting, and they went to work with pick and shovel -- then with drill and blasting-powder. ❋ Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 (1916)

Orion's depleted salary would no longer pay for food, tools, and blasting-powder, and the miner began to cast about far means to earn an additional sum, however small. ❋ Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 (1916)

Two days before the before-mentioned October morning Flint had bought some things, and he and Fetlock had brought them home to Flint's cabin: a fresh box of candles, which they put in the corner; a tin can of blasting-powder, which they placed upon the candle-box; a keg of blasting-powder, which they placed under Flint's bunk; a huge coil of fuse, which they hung on a peg. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The living, the tools, the blasting-powder, and the help eat it up faster than Orion's salary can grow. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

They'll be watching what you do, so get Breck to go to the A.C. C.mpany and buy up all the blasting-powder -- there's only several hundred pounds in stock. ❋ Jack London (1896)

"Wow, [Nora], [I just] got a blast of baking powder on that [bite]." ❋ Andy (2005)

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