Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FULMINATE
FULMINATE
Definitions of FULMINATE
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
- (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
- (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
- (transitive, nowrare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using FULMINATE in a Sentence
- Mercury(II) cyanate, though its chemical formula is identical, has a different atomic arrangement, making the cyanate and fulminate anions isomers.
- Lead styphnate does not react with other metals and is less sensitive to shock and friction than mercury fulminate or lead azide.
- The compound becomes progressively sensitive as it is aggregated, even in small amounts; the touch of a falling feather, the impact of a single water droplet, or a small static discharge are all capable of explosively detonating an unconfined pile of silver fulminate no larger than a dime and no heavier than a few milligrams.
- Sodium cyanate is isostructural with sodium fulminate, confirming the linear structure of the cyanate ion.
- Dehydrohalogenation upon contact with mercuric oxide generates chlorine fulminate, a reactive nitrile oxide:.
- Silver nitride was previously known as fulminating silver but due to confusions with silver fulminate it has been discontinued by the IUPAC.
- He observed that the proportions of mercury and sulfur in the precipitate are stoichometric for the formula ; and that nitrogen triiodide, silver fulminate, and mercury fulminate were accepted compounds, even though they were decomposed by slight friction.
- Inspector of Combustibles Owen Egan declared it "the greatest equipment for bomb making ever brought to New York" with 134 sticks of dynamite, blasting caps, coils of fuse, batteries, nitric acid, windproof matches, mercury fulminate, smokeless explosive powder.
- Similarly inspired by Forsyth's application of fulminates as a priming mechanism, Jean Samuel Pauly while working in France in 1812, invented the first self contained shotgun cartridge (including fulminate, gunpowder and shot) for breechloading guns.
- Here, "fulminating" has its oldest meaning, "explosive" (from Latin fulmen, lightning, from verb fulgeo, 'I shine'); the material contains no fulminate ions.
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