blasting adj

1 causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: ruinous]

2 unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio" [syn: blaring]

English

Verb

blasting

1. present participle of blast

Rock blasting is the controlled use of explosives to excavate or remove rock. It is a technique used most often in mining and civil engineering such as dam construction.

In 1990, 2.1 Tg of commercial explosives was consumed in the USA, representing an estimated expenditure of 3.5 to 4 billion 1993 dollars on blasting. Australia had the highest explosives consumption that year at 500 Tg, and the Scandinavian countries are also big blasters (Persson et al. 1994:1).

Gallery

References

• Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering

atmospherics, banging, blaring, blind spot, bursting, cracking, crashing, crawling, creeping, drift, exploding, explosive, fade-out, fading, flapping, interference, knocking, noise, popping, rapping, reception, slapping, slatting, static, tapping