Here are a few examples, it is used for flavouring foods, preserving food, and melting ice.
with food and ice if u want to melt it.
Explosives are used for mining purposes such as dynamite, military purposes like grenades, and for display as well as construction and demolition
They are used to demolish old unsafe buildings. They are also used in quarrying (open cast) to provide easier access to the minerals being mined.
Nitrate