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fulminate
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Fulminate
(gcide) | Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. t.
1. To cause to explode. --Sprat.
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2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; --
said especially of menaces or censures uttered by
ecclesiastical authority.
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They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
--De Quincey.
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Fulminate
(gcide) | Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate,
v. i.] (Chem.)
(a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(b) A fulminating powder.
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Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called
also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
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Fulminate
(gcide) | Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] [L. fulminatus, p. p. of
fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen
thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf.
Fulmine.]
1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to
detonate; to explode with a violent report.
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2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the
assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
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fulminate
(wn) | fulminate
n 1: a salt or ester of fulminic acid
v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans'
plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social
policies" [syn: fulminate, rail]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise |
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fulminate
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fulminate of mercury
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mercury fulminate
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Fulminate of gold
(gcide) | Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate,
v. i.] (Chem.)
(a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(b) A fulminating powder.
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Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called
also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
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fulminate of mercury
(gcide) | fulminate of mercury \ful"mi*nate of mer"cu*ry\, n. (Chem.)
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]mercury fulminate \mer"cu*ry ful"mi*nate\, n. (Chem.)
The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also
fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared
as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for
detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is
sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow.
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fulminate of silver
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\ (s[i^]l"v[~e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver,
seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin
to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG.
silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan.
s["o]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of
unknown origin.]
1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile,
very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It
is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic,
antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite,
proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of
the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized,
and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety
of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7.
Specific gravity 10.5.
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Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients
and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as
the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of
light upon them, and are used in photography.
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2. Coin made of silver; silver money.
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3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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4. The color of silver.
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Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of
obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright,
silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed,
silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled,
silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding,
silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See
Silver, a.
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Black silver (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle
silver ore}, or brittle silver glance.
Fulminating silver. (Chem.)
(a) A black crystalline substance, Ag2O.(NH3)2, obtained
by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry
it explodes violently on the slightest percussion.
(b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance,
Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution
of silver nitrate; -- also called {fulminate of
silver}. When dry it is violently explosive.
German silver. (Chem.) See under German.
Gray silver. (Min.) See Freieslebenite.
Horn silver. (Min.) See Cerargyrite.
King's silver. (O. Eng. Law) See Postfine.
Red silver, or Ruby silver. (Min.) See Proustite, and
Pyrargyrite.
Silver beater, one who beats silver into silver leaf or
silver foil.
Silver glance, or Vitreous silver. (Min.) See
Argentine.
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Fulminated
(gcide) | Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] [L. fulminatus, p. p. of
fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen
thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf.
Fulmine.]
1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to
detonate; to explode with a violent report.
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2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the
assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
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mercury fulminate
(gcide) | fulminate of mercury \ful"mi*nate of mer"cu*ry\, n. (Chem.)
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]mercury fulminate \mer"cu*ry ful"mi*nate\, n. (Chem.)
The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also
fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared
as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for
detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is
sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow.
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fulminate
(wn) | fulminate
n 1: a salt or ester of fulminic acid
v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans'
plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social
policies" [syn: fulminate, rail]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise |
fulminate of mercury
(wn) | fulminate of mercury
n 1: a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or
heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion
caps [syn: mercury fulminate, fulminate of mercury,
fulminating mercury] |
mercury fulminate
(wn) | mercury fulminate
n 1: a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or
heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion
caps [syn: mercury fulminate, fulminate of mercury,
fulminating mercury] |
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