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Definition of Fulminates

Fulminate
Fulminate Ful"mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] [L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.] 1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. 2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Fulminate
Fulminate Ful"mi*nate, v. t. 1. To cause to explode. --Sprat. 2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. --De Quincey.
Fulminate
Fulminate Ful"mi*nate, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

Meaning of Fulminates from wikipedia

- 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...
- weight. Silver fulminate was first prepared in 1800 by Edward Charles Howard in his research project to prepare a large variety of fulminates. Along with...
- D. Yoffe (1967). "Electronic Structure and Stability of the Inorganic Fulminates". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 302 (1468): 35–49. Bibcode:1967RSPSA...
- Fulminating gold is a light- and shock-sensitive yellow to yellow-orange amorphous heterogeneous mixture of different polymeric compounds of predominantly...
- 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...
- were prone to misfire in wet weather.[citation needed] The discovery of fulminates was made by Edward Charles Howard (1774–1816) in 1800. The invention that...
- earlier syntheses, this method avoids the use of highly explosive metal fulminates. Beck, W.; Feldl, K. (1966). "The Structure of Fulminic Acid, HCNO". Angew...
- acetylide Fulminic Acid, Fulminating Gold, Mercury(II) fulminate, Platinum fulminate, Pot****ium fulminate, Silver fulminate MonoNitro: Nitroguanidine...
- 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...
- Look up fulminate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fulminating silver is a historic name which may apply to a number of silver based explosives which...