• Thumbnail for Mercury(II) fulminate
    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...
    7 KB (568 words) - 09:10, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fulminate
    to the instability of the ion, fulminate salts are friction-sensitive explosives. The best known is mercury(II) fulminate, which has been used as a primary...
    4 KB (385 words) - 22:17, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silver fulminate
    Silver fulminate was first prepared in 1800 by Edward Charles Howard in his research project to prepare a large variety of fulminates. Along with mercury fulminate...
    9 KB (948 words) - 15:35, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potassium fulminate
    mercury and carbon. List of explosives Fulminic acid Fulminate Silver fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate Potassium cyanate Z. Iqbal and A. D. Yoffe (1967)....
    2 KB (110 words) - 21:07, 6 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Mercury(II) nitrate
    and in the manufacture of mercury fulminate. An alternative qualitative Zeisel test can be done with the use of mercury(II) nitrate instead of silver...
    6 KB (399 words) - 20:33, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Red mercury
    (historically called red precipitate), and mercury(II) iodide, and others are explosive, such as mercury(II) fulminate. No use for any of these compounds in...
    30 KB (3,549 words) - 08:48, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury (element)
    products continue to exceed that limit, and are considered toxic. Mercury(II) fulminate is a primary explosive, which has mainly been used as a primer of...
    118 KB (12,556 words) - 21:28, 14 August 2024
  • Lead azide Lead styphnate Lead picrate Manganese heptoxide Mercury(II) fulminate Mercury nitride Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide Nickel hydrazine nitrate...
    72 KB (8,121 words) - 00:28, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for TNT equivalent
    Maria T. (December 1, 2011). "Seismic effects of the Caloris basin impact, Mercury". Planetary and Space Science. 59 (15): 1981–1991. Bibcode:2011P&SS...59...
    60 KB (3,303 words) - 16:28, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury(II) cyanide
    (accessed April 1, 2009). Aylett, B.J. "Mercury (II) Pseudohalides: Cyanide, Thiocyanate, Selenocyanate, Azide, Fulminate." Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry...
    9 KB (824 words) - 19:21, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for MG 151 cannon
    MG 151 cannon (category World War II machine guns)
    Germany from 1934 to 1940 and produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser during World War II. It was originally produced in 15.1 mm caliber from 1940, with a 15×96mm cartridge...
    36 KB (2,606 words) - 18:31, 11 July 2024
  • mercury and sulfur in the precipitate are stoichometric for the formula Hg 2S; and that nitrogen triiodide, silver fulminate, and mercury fulminate were...
    9 KB (1,173 words) - 07:39, 5 August 2023
  • 7774–29–0 Hg(NO3)2 mercury(II) nitrate 10045–94–0 HgO mercury(II) oxide 21908–53–2 Hg(ONC)2 mercury(II) fulminate 628–86–4 HgS mercury(II) sulfide 1344–48–5...
    139 KB (120 words) - 17:07, 15 July 2024
  • 7783-34-8 Hg(CNO)2 mercury(II) fulminate 628-86-4 HgNa sodium amalgam HgO mercury(II) oxide 21908-53-2 Hg(OH)2 mercury(II) hydroxide HgS mercury(II) sulfide cinnabar...
    182 KB (107 words) - 15:39, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centerfire ammunition
    Priming mixtures containing mercury fulminate leave metallic mercury in the bore and empty cartridge case after firing. The mercury was largely absorbed in...
    26 KB (3,417 words) - 20:02, 10 July 2024
  • nitrogen trichloride NCl3) IV. −C=N−O− The fulminate group (e.g. fulminic acid HONC and mercury fulminate Hg(ONC)2) V. −OClO2, −OClO3 The chlorate and...
    3 KB (423 words) - 07:35, 27 January 2023
  • when dry. Fulminating gold – a number of gold based explosives which "fulminate", or detonate easily. – gold hydrazide, formed by adding ammonia to the...
    14 KB (1,523 words) - 00:04, 15 July 2024
  • fulminate of mercury, which was improvement over the corrosive chlorate of potash fulminate patented by Alexander John Forsyth. Fulminate of mercury was...
    10 KB (1,398 words) - 10:24, 29 December 2023
  • Comments Mercury fulminate Potassium chlorate Antimony trisulfide Primer cap composition Army Bakufun Mk I and Mk III powders are ammunition primers, Mk II is...
    4 KB (47 words) - 18:34, 9 February 2024
  • investigated fulminate of mercury and "explosive gold". In 1690, Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel's book Laboratorium Chymicum described how to make fulminate of mercury...
    23 KB (3,383 words) - 01:40, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silver nitride
    Silver nitride was formerly referred to as fulminating silver, but this can cause confusion with silver fulminate or silver azide, other compounds which have...
    6 KB (561 words) - 14:24, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nickel hydrazine nitrate
    traditional explosives (lead azide – 0.1N; lead styphnate – 1.5 N; mercury fulminate (white) – 5.0 N; tetrazene – 8.0 N; PETN – 60 N; RDX – 120 N; HMX...
    8 KB (524 words) - 12:34, 31 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Handgun
    chemical compound called mercury fulminate or fulminate of mercury, the chemical formula of which is Hg(ONC)2. It is made from mercury, nitric acid, and alcohol...
    60 KB (7,581 words) - 22:12, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for San Jose, California
    for the mercury mines which produced mercury needed for gold extraction from quartz during the California Gold Rush as well as mercury fulminate blasting...
    201 KB (17,705 words) - 23:27, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silver
    silver azide, silver amide, and silver fulminate, as well as silver acetylide, silver oxalate, and silver(II) oxide. They can explode on heating, force...
    94 KB (11,248 words) - 21:28, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tetryl
    blasting caps necessary for positive detonation of TNT. A mixture of mercury fulminate and potassium chlorate is included in the cap to ensure detonation...
    7 KB (632 words) - 04:11, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lead styphnate
    Lead styphnate (category Lead(II) compounds)
    with other metals and is less sensitive to shock and friction than mercury fulminate or lead azide. It is stable in storage, even at elevated temperatures...
    9 KB (741 words) - 13:18, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lupin the 3rd Part II season 3
    Lupin the 3rd Part II, also known as Shin Lupin III or simply as Lupin III for the American market, is a Japanese anime series based on the manga by Monkey...
    51 KB (210 words) - 07:14, 1 April 2024
  • List of ammonium nitrate disasters List of explosives used during World War II Padmanabhan 2019, p. 59. Romane 2020, p. 220. "Roger Bacon | Philosophy, Biography...
    10 KB (425 words) - 23:18, 22 July 2024
  • thiocyanate – Hg(SCN)2 Mercury(IV) fluoride – HgF4 Mercury fulminate – Hg(ONC)2 Molybdenum(II) bromide – MoBr2 Molybdenum(II) chloride – Mo6Cl12 Molybdenum(III)...
    119 KB (8,734 words) - 09:23, 30 July 2024