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Fulminate of mercury   /fˈʊlmənˌeɪt əv mˈərkjəri/   Listen
Fulminate of mercury

noun
1.
A fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps.  Synonyms: fulminating mercury, mercury fulminate.






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"Fulminate of mercury" Quotes from Famous Books



... several charges are required, a copper cap in which is a minute quantity of fulminate of mercury, and which is exploded by a spark, is attached to fine electric wires and sealed by sulphur. This cap is placed in holes in the sticks of dynamite, and then securely tied by drawing string tightly around the paper which is ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... for the purpose. The lamp will give a brilliant light, bright enough to suffice for the illumination of the whole place by itself, but at the end of twenty minutes the light will fade, and then when some one tries to turn up the wick a cap of fulminate of mercury will explode, the pomegranate will blow up and with it the dining-room, in the roof and floor of which I have concealed sacks of powder, so that ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... current of electricity goes through a wire, it heats it; and if the current be made strong enough, and a white hot wire thus comes in contact with powder or fulminate of mercury in a torpedo, an explosion will result. But it is important to know exactly when to explode the torpedo, especially during the night or in a fog; and hence torpedoes are often made automatic by what is called a circuit ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various



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