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/fˈʊlmənˌeɪt əv mˈərkjəri/ Listen

Fulminate of mercury

noun

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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... was hardly appropriate to them, since, to these unknown chemists, dynamite was an innocent material only fit to destroy ant-hills, and they considered it mere child's play to explode nitro-glycerine with a cartridge made of fulminate of mercury.) Business ceased suddenly, and those who were least rich were the first to feel the effects. They spoke of doing justice themselves to the anarchists. In the mean time the factory workers remained hostile or indifferent to violent action. ...

— Penguin Island • Anatole France

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... it," Jack scorned. "Well, it's just this way—You see, dynamite will burn without exploding. A very little jar, however, sometimes is sufficient to set it going and explode it. When setting off a charge, a cap containing some fulminate of mercury is put over the end of the fuse. That stuff will explode from fire. When the fuse burns down to the cap, the cap explodes and the jar of its explosion sets ...

— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson

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Words linked to "Fulminate of mercury" : blasting cap, percussion cap, fulminate