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    confused with silver nitride, silver azide, or fulminating silver. "Fulminating silver", though always referring to an explosive silver-containing substance...
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  • 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...
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    the organic chemist Justus Liebig discovered silver fulminate (AgCNO) and Friedrich Wöhler discovered silver cyanate (AgOCN). They have different properties...
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    silver and nitrogen gas. Silver nitride was formerly referred to as fulminating silver, but this can cause confusion with silver fulminate or silver azide...
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    1016/s0187-893x(17)30114-3. ISSN 0187-893X. Edward Howard (1800). "On a New Fulminating Mercury". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London....
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    mercury and carbon. List of explosives Fulminic acid Fulminate Silver fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate Potassium cyanate Z. Iqbal and A. D. Yoffe (1967)....
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    the nitrogen compounds silver azide, silver amide, and silver fulminate, as well as silver acetylide, silver oxalate, and silver(II) oxide. They can explode...
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  • Azoclathrates Benzvalene Chlorine oxides DMAPP Fluorine perchlorate Fulminating gold Fulminating silver (several substances) Hexafluoroantimonate Hexafluoroarsenate...
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    explosive Silver nitride may precipitate out of the solution. Silver nitride was previously known as fulminating silver but due to confusions with silver fulminate...
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  • and air. Fulminating silver – principally, silver nitride, formed by dissolving silver(I) oxide in ammonia. Very explosive when dry. Fulminating gold –...
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    tri-acetate or polyester. Similarly, silver nitrate is used to prepare some silver-based explosives, such as the fulminate, azide, or acetylide, through a...
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    "Autopsia revela que Silver King murió a causa de un infarto fulminante" [Autopsy reveals that Silver King died from a fulminating heart attack]. La Razón...
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    into alcohols. Silver fulminate, AgCNO, a powerful, touch-sensitive explosive used in percussion caps, is made by reaction of silver metal with nitric...
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    of silver fulminate high explosive and twisted in a cigarette paper to produce a shape resembling a cherry. The friction-sensitive silver fulminate detonates...
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  • a minuscule amount of silver fulminate is encased in gravel and cigarette paper. Even with this small amount of silver fulminate, it produces a loud, sharp...
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    that used in a cap gun). One chemical used for the friction strip is silver fulminate. Crackers are traditionally pulled during Christmas dinner or at Christmas...
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    ammonium nitrate. AgNCO + 2 HNO3 + H2O → AgNO3 + CO2 + NH4NO3 Silver fulminate "3315-16-0 - Silver cyanate, 98% - 45411 - Alfa Aesar". www.alfa.com. Retrieved...
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  • potassium cyanate (KNCO) and silver cyanate (AgNCO), examples of fulminates are silver fulminate (AgOCN) and mercury fulminate (HgOCN) and an example of...
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    called a cyanate. The cyanate ion is an isomer of the much-less-stable fulminate anion, CNO− or [C−≡N+−O−]. The cyanate ion is an ambidentate ligand, forming...
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    Early blasting caps also used silver fulminate, but it has been replaced with cheaper and safer primary explosives. Silver azide is still used sometimes...
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    was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister who first successfully used fulminating (or 'detonating') chemicals to prime gunpowder in fire-arms thereby creating...
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  • salts with silver such as silver cyanide (AgCN), silver cyanate (AgOCN), silver fulminate (AgCNO), silver thiocyanate (AgSCN) and silver azide (AgN3)...
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  • silver nitrate 7761–88–8 AgO silver(I,III) oxide 1301–96–8 AgONC silver fulminate 5610–59–3 AgPF6 silver hexafluorophosphate 26042–63–7 AgReO4 silver...
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    mostly because of its high initiating power (higher than that of mercury fulminate) and its inexpensive production. As such, it was quickly taken up as a...
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    (/haɪˈdrɑːrdʒərəm/ hy-DRAR-jər-əm) from the Greek words hydor 'water' and argyros 'silver', from which its chemical symbol is derived. A heavy, silvery d-block element...
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    Rhubarb-earth [see 29] in various Plants Preparation of Magnesia alba Fulminating Gold. Corn oil [ Fusel oil ]. Calomel Air-acid Lead amalgam Vinegar-naphtha...
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    called had been around for decades by 1860 after the discovery of silver fulminate by the chemist Edward Charles Howard in 1800 and its further development...
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    naval mines, detonators that used glass Batavian tears, and worked on fulminating gold (aurum fulminans) as an explosive. He was known for his Perpetuum...
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    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...
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  • transfusion fulmin-, fulgur- flash Latin fulmen "lightning flash" fulminant, fulminate, fulmination, fulgurite fung-, funct- do Latin fungī, fūnctus function...
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