CEH: Explosives & Blasting Agents

Dec 2019. The principal distinction between explosives and blasting agents is their sensitivity to initiation. Explosives are cap-sensitive, whereas blasting agents are not and therefore require a primer. Water gels and slurries may be either explosives or blasting agents. 

The many industrial and military uses for explosives and blasting agents—ranging from earth moving to seismic wave generation to materials modification to munitions to propulsion—have generated a host of sophisticated and specialized explosives products and delivery packages. However, in terms of overall revenues, markets, and products, the business is overwhelmingly dominated by chemical materials based on the intermediate production of nitric acid (principally ammonium nitrate [AN]) that are used by the world’s mining and quarrying industries.

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• Publish Date: 2019-12-31
• Chemical Focus: Chlor-Alkali, Inorganics and Mining Materials
• Number of Pages: 227
• Content Type: Report
• Delivery: Email with link to PDF file

Highlights

• Global summary; regional coverage
• Producers with annual capacities and plant sites
• Consumption and five-year forecast by end-use application
• Price and production figures and trends
• Trade imports and exports

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