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Definition of Fulminating powder

Fulminating powder
Fulminating Ful"mi*na"ting, a. 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.

Meaning of Fulminating powder from wikipedia

- obtained instead. Internal ballistics Edward Howard (1800). "On a New Fulminating Mercury". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London....
- ignite black powder charges in muzzle-loading firearms. Later, during the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, mercury fulminate became widely...
- used a fulminating primer made of fulminate of mercury, chlorate of potash, sulphur and charcoal, ignited by concussion. His invention of a fulminate-primed...
- Azoclathrates Benzvalene Chlorine oxides DMAPP Fluorine perchlorate Fulminating gold Fulminating silver (several substances) Hexafluoroantimonate Hexafluoro****nate...
- by the Rev. A. J. Forsyth in 1807 and consisted of priming with a fulminating powder made of pot****ium chlorate, sulfur, and charcoal, which ignited by...
- 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. Davy...
- gained wide-scale use as a more robust alternative to the traditional black powder explosives. It allows the use of nitroglycerine's favorable explosive properties...
- with fulminate primer, which would deliver a small amount of priming powder near the gun breech every time the magazine was ****ed. Since the fulminate powder...
- Scent-bottle lock refers to a design by Forsyth. The charger containing the fulminating powder resembles a scent bottle in shape. Early breech-loading, cap lock...
- that will propel the projectiles out of the gun barrel. In early black powder guns such as muzzleloaders, the primer was essentially the same chemical...