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    Fulminates are chemical compounds which include the fulminate ion (CNO−, C−≡N+−O−). The fulminate ion is a pseudohalic ion because its charge and reactivity...
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    fulminate (AgCNO) is the highly explosive silver salt of fulminic acid. Silver fulminate is a primary explosive, but has limited use as such due to its...
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    Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive. It is highly sensitive to friction, heat and shock and is mainly used as a trigger for other...
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    Potassium fulminate is the potassium salt of the fulminate ion. Its only use, aside from chemical demonstrations, is in the percussion caps for some early...
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  • Fulminating gold is a light- and shock-sensitive yellow to yellow-orange amorphous heterogeneous mixture of different polymeric compounds of predominantly...
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    material such as mercuric fulminate (discovered in 1800; it was the only practical detonator used from about the mid-19th century to the early 20th century)...
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  • recorded performance to the vocals on the track "Báthory Erzsébet". 2,000 copies included a bonus disc titled Solstitium Fulminate, containing a mix of...
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  • Platinum fulminate is a primary explosive which is a fulminate salt of platinum discovered by Edmund Davy. It is described as a tasteless brown powder...
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  • compounds that are still incorporated into performances today. Silver Fulminate is used to make noise-makers, small contact poppers, and several other novelty...
    9 KB (1,071 words) - 03:06, 8 November 2023
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    lighter. Old detonators used mercury fulminate as the primary explosive, often mixed with potassium chlorate to yield better performance. This compound...
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  • Fulmination (redirect from Fulminated)
    dictionary. Fulmination may refer to; Detonation, a characteristic property of ionic chemical compounds which include the fulminate ion CNO− A solemn political...
    284 bytes (68 words) - 21:06, 8 August 2022
  • potassium chloride leads to fulminant death by cardiac arrest. Look up fulminate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. To fulminate is to hurl verbal denunciations...
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    silver fulminate high explosive and twisted in a cigarette paper to produce a shape resembling a cherry. The friction-sensitive silver fulminate detonates...
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  • on the market today are sensitive to an n. 8 detonator, where the charge corresponds to 2 grams of mercury fulminate. The velocity with which the reaction...
    73 KB (8,329 words) - 06:13, 30 April 2024
  • silver such as silver cyanide (AgCN), silver cyanate (AgOCN), silver fulminate (AgCNO), silver thiocyanate (AgSCN) and silver azide (AgN3). A common...
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    referred to as fulminating silver, but this can cause confusion with silver fulminate or silver azide, other compounds which have also been referred to by this...
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    October 2023. Sharpe, Philip B. Complete Guide To Handloading (1953) Funk & Wagnalls p. 51 "PowerLabs Fulminate Explosives Synthesis". PowerLabs. Archived...
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  • He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the flint-lock mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms. This...
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    Handgun (category Articles to be merged from April 2024)
    trigger releases the hammer, it strikes the cap, causing the mercuric fulminate to explode. The flames from this explosion travel down the tube in the nipple...
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  • (KNCO) and silver cyanate (AgNCO), examples of fulminates are silver fulminate (AgOCN) and mercury fulminate (HgOCN) and an example of a thiocyanate is potassium...
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