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Chemical name: High Range Soundless Cracking Agent (HSCA) , Calcium Hydroxide, Calcium Oxide is a new commercial product which is an alternative to explosives and gas pressure blasting products used in demolition, mining, and quarrying.

HSCA High Range Soundless Cracking Agent
The use of the non-explosive demolition agents in rock demolition or quarrying is very easy, holes are simply drilled in the base rock like they would be drilled with the conventional explosives. Then a slurry mixture of the non-explosive demolition agent and water poured into it. Over the next few hours the slurry expands, cracks the rock in a pattern just like as it would occur with a conventional explosives.

Prodrill High Range Soundless Cracking Agent (HSCA) offers many advantages including the fact that it's silent and do not produce vibration the way a conventional explosive would. In some applications conventional explosives are more economical than non-explosive demolition agents. In many countries these are available without restriction unlike explosives which are highly regulated.