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Drilling and blasting

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. The result of rock blasting is often known as a rock cut.

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Drilling and blasting

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples10
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Drilling and blasting

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related to Procedure · 5
Drilling and blasting → As, Detonating, Repeating, Rubble, Stemming
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Drilling and blasting → controlled use of explosives and other methods

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blasting rock explosives tunnel used blast drilling gunpowder method drill tunnels use mining dynamite hole explosive holes methods break often

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Drilling and blastingis acontrolled use of explosives and other methods0.90text
daminstance ofquarrying and civil engineering0.80text
tunnel or road constructioninstance ofquarrying and civil engineering0.80text
the combination of rock boltinginstance ofeach intended to undertake a specific role in the rock support0.80text
shotcreteinstance ofeach intended to undertake a specific role in the rock support0.80text
Drilling and blastingrelated to ProcedureAs0.60section
Drilling and blastingrelated to ProcedureStemming0.60section
Drilling and blastingrelated to ProcedureDetonating0.60section
Drilling and blastingrelated to ProcedureRubble0.60section
Drilling and blastingrelated to ProcedureRepeating0.60section

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