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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fulminate of mercury has 1 sense
- fulminate of mercury(n = noun.substance) fulminating mercury, mercury fulminate - a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps; Array is a part of blasting cap, percussion cap
is a kind of fulminate
CIDE DICTIONARY
fulminate of mercury, n.
The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2 ), called also mercury fulminate . It is prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. [PJC]