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fracteur


gelignite: Blow up the boondy with a stick of fracteur.

Contributor's comments: The term fracteur was used in Broken Hill and in Tasmanian mining communities in this sense. I believe it is more of a mining technical term than a regionalism, as it occurs in many mining textbooks from overseas.