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    Potassium fulminate is the potassium salt of the fulminate ion. Its only use, aside from chemical demonstrations, is in the percussion caps for some early...
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    Fulminates are chemical compounds which include the fulminate ion (CNO−, C−≡N+−O−). The fulminate ion is a pseudohalic ion because its charge and reactivity...
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    the silver fulminate. A fulminate mixture with 10–20% potassium chlorate is cheaper and more brisant than the fulminate alone. Silver fulminate is often...
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    projectiles until the early 20th century. Mercury fulminate has the distinct advantage over potassium chlorate of being non-corrosive, but it is known...
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    precaution is a common source of accidents. Potassium chlorate, often in combination with silver fulminate, is used in trick noise-makers known as "crackers"...
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  • KCNO potassium fulminate KCNS potassium thiocyanate 333-20-0 KCl potassium chloride 7447-40-7 KClO potassium hypochlorite 7778-66-7 KClO2 potassium chlorite...
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    match or a lighter. Old detonators used mercury fulminate as the primary explosive, often mixed with potassium chlorate to yield better performance. This compound...
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  • injection of potassium chloride leads to fulminant death by cardiac arrest. Look up fulminate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. To fulminate is to hurl...
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  • cyanates are potassium cyanate (KNCO) and silver cyanate (AgNCO), examples of fulminates are silver fulminate (AgOCN) and mercury fulminate (HgOCN) and...
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    so incandescent potassium carbonate would spread fire through the smokeless powder.Potassium chlorate was added to mercury fulminate priming mixtures...
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  • Azoclathrates Benzvalene Chlorine oxides DMAPP Fluorine perchlorate Fulminating gold Fulminating silver (several substances) Hexafluoroantimonate Hexafluoroarsenate...
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    by a small copper percussion cap that contained a volatile charge of fulminate of mercury (a substance that explodes upon being subjected to a sharp...
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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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  • when dry. Fulminating gold – a number of gold based explosives which "fulminate", or detonate easily. – gold hydrazide, formed by adding ammonia to the...
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  • 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...
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    investigated silver fulminate and silver cyanate. These two compounds have the same chemical composition yet are chemically different. Silver fulminate is explosive...
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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....
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  • KAsO2 Potassium azide – KN3 Potassium borate – K2B4O7·4H2O Potassium bromide – KBr Potassium bicarbonate – KHCO3 Potassium bifluoride – KHF2 Potassium bisulfite...
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    It is also employed to convert alkyl bromides into alcohols. Silver fulminate, AgCNO, a powerful, touch-sensitive explosive used in percussion caps...
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  • for the formula Hg 2S; and that nitrogen triiodide, silver fulminate, and mercury fulminate were accepted compounds, even though they were decomposed by...
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  • investigated fulminate of mercury and "explosive gold". In 1690, Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel's book Laboratorium Chymicum described how to make fulminate of mercury...
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    Fulminic acid (category Fulminates)
    isofulminic acid (H−O−N+≡C−). Fulminate is the anion [C−≡N+−O−] or any of its salts. For historical reasons, the fulminate functional group is understood...
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    was fitted with a Maynard tape primer. A roll of paper impregnated with fulminate served as the detonator, but it was found to be impractical in wet or...
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    necessary for positive detonation of TNT. A mixture of mercury fulminate and potassium chlorate is included in the cap to ensure detonation of tetryl...
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  • combinations. Specifically, he was interested in the explosive compound silver fulminate. In 1825 he read a paper written by Friedrich Wöhler in which he describes...
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    nitrate is used to prepare some silver-based explosives, such as the fulminate, azide, or acetylide, through a precipitation reaction. Treatment of silver...
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    is somewhat unpredictable: "It is more insensitive to the shock from a fulminate cap or a rifle ball when in that condition but on the other hand it appears...
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  • Type Application Navy or Army Japanese designation Comments Mercury fulminate Potassium chlorate Antimony trisulfide Primer cap composition Army Bakufun...
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  • which Carl Friedrich Gauss names Vesta. Potassium and sodium are isolated by Sir Humphry Davy. The use of fulminate in firearms is patented by Scottish clergyman...
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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 perrhenate...
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