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fulminate of mercury
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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]
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