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Fulminating mercury

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





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... The police had seized, some time before, in Paris, ten thousand Orsini bombs, and hundreds of others of a new construction, charged with fulminating mercury.] ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton


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