Fulminating silver
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Fulminating silver is the name given to a number of explosive silver-containing substances that "fulminate" or detonate easily and violently.
"Fulminating silver" has no exact chemical or dictionary definition.
It may refer to:
- silver fulminate (which, confusingly, is the only "fulminating silver" to be a silver compound with the fulminate anion)
- silver azide, AgN3
- a mixture, a decomposition product of Tollens' reagent
- silver nitride, Ag3N[1]
- the alchemical substance "Argentum Fulminans"
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[edit] References
- ^ Edward S. Shanley and John L. Ennis (1991). "The chemistry and free energy of formation of silver nitride". Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 30 (11): 2503–2506. doi:10.1021/ie00059a023.
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