FULMINATE

fŭlˈmĭnāt, any salt of fulminic acid, HONC, a highly unstable compound known only in solution. The term is most commonly applied to the explosive mercury (II) fulminate, also called fulminate of mercury, Hg(ONC)2. The pure compound forms white cubic crystals. It is made by the action of nitric acid on mercury metal in the presence of alcohol and is often collected as a gray or brown sandy powder. It is very sensitive to heat, shock, or friction and is used in primers, detonators, and blasting caps.

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books on: Fulminate  - 664 results

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Gunpowder and Weaponry
Book by James Lincoln Collier; Benchmark Books, 2004
Subjects: Firearms--History, Gunpowder--History, Military Art And Science--History, Ordnance--History
...began hearing about a new explosive substance called fulminate. Fulminates were made by dis- solving metals in acid. They had...speed of 1lintloeks. Ilis kev discovery was that fulminate would explode not only when it was lit like gunpowder...
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Texas Smoke: Muzzle-Loaders on the Frontier
Book by C. F. Eckhardt, Wesley G. Williams; Texas Tech University Press, 2001
Subjects: Muzzle-Loading Firearms--Texas--History
...Forsythe took on the task of taming mercuric fulminate and was successful, at least to the...contained enough of the Reverends tamed fulminate for about a dozen shots. To charge or...lock and fired the priming charge of fulminate by mashing it suddenly. This was called...
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Rockets: Sulfur, Sputnik and Scramjets
Book by Peter Macinnis; Allen & Unwin, 2003
Subjects: Rocketry--History
...Alexander Forsyth had invented mercuric fulminate caps for cannon in 1799. Mercuric fulminate is a chemical which can be ignited by a blow...system was applied to rockets. We first see fulminate caps in rockets when Congreve and Lieutenant...
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Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation
Book by Stephen Bull; Greenwood Press, 2004
Subjects: Military Art And Science--Dictionaries, Military Weapons--Dictionaries
...interesting property of metal fulminates proved difficult to harness...to deposit a few grains of fulminate. A hammer, worked by the...pellet locks confined the fulminate in different ways, while...contained a small charge of fulminate. Once the soldier had loaded...
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French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century
Book by Shelby T. McCloy; University of Kentucky Press, 1952
Subjects: France--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Inventors--France, Technology--France--History--18th Century
...for the French armies, made known mercury fulminate fulminate de mercure and its characteristics. To the...intermittent experimentation with various fulminates. When the silver fulminate of Berthollet was found too violent, French...
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journal articles on: Fulminate  - 37 results

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Silence Cannot Be Harmless
Journal article by Gregory S. Chernack; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 106, 1997
Subjects: Appellate procedure--Standards, Instructions to juries--Laws, regulations, etc., Right to trial by jury--Laws, regulations, etc., United States v. Rogers--94 F.3d 1519 (11th Cir. 1996)
...S. 18 (1967). (2.) Arizona v. Fulminate, 499 U.S. 279, 307 (1991...78 (1986). (4.) See e.g., Fulminate, 499 U.S. at 291 (White J., dissenting...subject to harmless error review, see Fulminate, 499 U.S. at 306-07. (8.) 94...
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The Appearance of Justice Revisited
Journal article by Peter David Blanck; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, 1996
Subjects: Justice, Administration of--Public opinion, Liteky v. United States--114 S. Ct. 1147 (1994)
...adjudicator is such a fundamental right.(43) In Arizona v. Fulminate, the Court concluded that a criminal trial tainted by a biased...277. (56) See Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Arizona v. Fulminate: The Harm of Applying Harmless Error to Coerced Confessions...
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The Troubled Heart of T.h. White: Women and the Once and Future King
Journal article by Kurth Sprague; Arthuriana, Vol. 16, 2006
Subjects: Literary criticism, Novels, White, Terence Hanbury, Writers
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On the Narrative Function of Metonymy in Chapter Xiv of Heine's Ideen. das Buch le Grand
Journal article by Gunther Martens, Benjamin Biebuyck; Style, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Narratives, Writing
...survivors, dubbed "armchair strategists" (Timm, "Brothers" 89; "Westentaschenstrategen," Timm, "Am Beispiel" 99), fulminate as follows in the immediate aftermath of World War II: he directed his anger not at the real causes but only at military...
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Whiplash: a Secret History of Women's Politics
Journal article by Pamela Haag; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 47, 2008
Subjects: Birth control, Conferences, Defense spending, Feminism, High income, Politics, Religion, Secondary schools, Statistical data, Violence
...but the more the devil breathes down your back, the more money you can raise sometimes." These were the early years of a fulminate K Street lobbying juggernaut in Washington, and in 1984, feminists secured their sturdiest foothold in that world around...
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Once a Liberal, She Now Fulminates from the Pages of the Daily Mail and Has Become the Government's Most Rabid Opponent
Magazine article by Peter Hillmore; New Statesman, Vol. 132, March 10, 2003
Subjects: Journalists--Behavior, Phillips, Melanie--Behavior, The Guardian (London) (Newspaper)--Officials and employees
Once a liberal, she now fulminates from the pages of the Daily Mail and has become the governments most rabid opponent by Peter Hillmore Perhaps its all the Guardians...
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Tinky Winky Update: America Laughs, Falwell Fulminates
Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 52, April 1999
Subjects: Falwell, Jerry--Attitudes, Teletubbies (Television program)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tinky Winky Update: America Laughs, Falwell Fulminates. In the wake of widespread public ridicule for "outing" Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, the Rev. Jerry Falwell has issued...
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Why I'm Glad My Daughter Had Underage Sex: Amid the Clamors for Censorship, Celibacy, and an End to Teenagers' Rights to Confidentiality, British Journalist Sally Feldman Fulminates against Her Country's Misguided Moral Crusaders
Magazine article by Sally Feldman; The Humanist, Vol. 64, November 2004
Subjects: Teen magazines--Criticism and interpretation, Teen magazines--Influence
...the Clamors for Censorship, Celibacy, and an End to Teenagers Rights to Confidentiality, British Journalist Sally Feldman Fulminates against Her Countrys Misguided Moral Crusaders. by Sally Feldman At their conference this summer the Association of Teachers...
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Hypocrisy on the March-from the U.s. and Israel to France and Morocco
Magazine article by Ian Williams; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 29, July 2010
Subjects: Capital punishment, Councils, Human rights, Jews, Nonfiction, South Africa
...loving, defenseless Israel actually has nuclear weapons. And then we complete the circle, since there is strong evidence that Israels nuclear arsenal was built up with help from apartheid South Africa. Go fulminate, Alan Dershowitz.
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Nothing Grows Forever
Magazine article by Clive Thompson; Mother Jones, Vol. 35, May/Jun 2010
Subjects: Earth, Economic growth, Emission standards, Greenhouse gases, Gross Domestic Product--GDP, Poverty, Prosperity
...case, the pathway to America voluntarily reducing its consumption levels seems obscure at best. Right-wing radio hosts fulminate against the government merely for placing restrictions on incandescent lightbulbs; one can imagine their reaction to scaling...
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A Storm in a Hiccup? Yes. but It's Also the Defining Moment of FF's Demise
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 19, 2010
...still here pretending that things are relatively normal. We are dazed, groggy and inarticulate. We are tongue-tied. We fulminate and froth but cannot quite describe the full gamut of our feelings. it is the normalisation of the abnormal, above all...
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Sorry, There Was No Case for Casey
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 31, 2010
Subjects: Celtic Manor, Courier services, Express delivery services, FedEx Corp.
...automatically, making him unique among the five leading wild card aspirants from whom the captain had to choose. Do not fulminate at Monty, then, for not picking him, or rail at the selection system. Casey has no-one to blame but himself. Dodgy...
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Rise Up and Defeat This Evil Scourge; (before the Brits Have to Show Us How)
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 22, 2010
...that I may be over-reacting. I just do not understand the passivity of other motorists on this subject. They fume and fulminate but in the end they pay up and get on with things as though, ultimately, their outrage at being clamped has been in some...
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Stand Up to These Bullies
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 6, 2010
Subjects: Bullying, Coalition governments
...beyond doubt is they have enjoyed far better deals than their counterparts in the private sector. So when the union bosses fulminate against the Treasurys programme, they are really expressing their desire to uphold the privileged position of their members...
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Yes, the Male Menopause DOES Exist -- and It's Time Women Took It Seriously; an Acclaimed Novelist Makes a Very Personal Plea ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 7, 2010
Subjects: Menopause, Novelists
...part of the frustration for a lot of men who suffer this state of mind is that no one really takes them seriously. They may fulminate, they may rage, they may bicker, they may get grumpy or withdraw altogether, but perhaps the truth is that men are still...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fulminate  - 5 results

 
 
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Fulminate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FULMINATE ful minat, any salt of fulminic acid, HONC, a highly unstable...term is most commonly applied to the explosive mercury (II) fulminate, also called fulminate of mercury, Hg(ONC) 2 . The pure compound forms white cubic...
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Small Arms
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...invention of the percussion-cap method of igniting gunpowder. The percussion cap was a small metal capsule, filled with fulminate of mercury, that exploded when struck and fired the gun instantly; it soon replaced the flintlock. Another important advance...
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Mercury , Chemical Element
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...red pigment, is mercuric sulfide; another crystalline form of the sulfide (also used as a pigment) is black. Mercury fulminate , Hg(CNO) 2 , is used as a detonator. Mercury forms many organic compounds. Mercurochrome (in 2% aqueous solution...
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Detonator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...DETONATOR de t na t r, type of explosive that reacts with great rapidity and is used to set off other, more inert explosives. Fulminate of mercury mixed with potassium chlorate is a commonly used detonator. The word is also applied to equipment which, by flame...
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Salt , Chemical Compound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...grouped according to the negative ion they contain, e.g., bicarbonate or carbonate , chlorate , chloride , cyanide , fulminate , nitrate , phosphate , silicate , sulfate , or sulfide . Preparation of Salts Salts are also prepared by methods other than...


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