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critical current
As applied to electric blasting caps, the minimum current that can be employed to fire detonators connected in series so that the chance of a misfire will be less than 1 in 100,000.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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