explosive bonding

construction

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  • coal miner loading a drill hole with an explosive
    In explosive: Explosive bonding

    Explosives are sometimes used to bond various metals to each other. For example, when silver was removed from United States coinage, much of the so-called sandwich metal that replaced it was obtained by the explosive bonding of large slabs, which were then rolled…

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