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Mercury fulminate is white when pure but ordinarily, it has a faint brownish yellow or gray tint. It is a heavy, practically non-hygroscopic, crystalline solid. When dry, mercury fulminate is very sensitive to heat, friction, spark, flame, and shock.
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www.ordnance.org/mercury.htm
www.ordnance.org/mercury.htm
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Complete, illustrated instructions for the synthesis of Various Fulminates, including Mercury Fulminate, Silver Fulminate, and Copper Fulminate, with pictures and videos. ... Mercury fulminate is an unstable primary explosive compound. Mercury fulminate was discovered in 1799 by the British chemist Howard. It was introduced...
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www.powerlabs.org/chemlabs/fulminate.htm
www.powerlabs.org/chemlabs/fulminate.htm
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Mercury fulminate is perhaps one of the oldest known initiating compounds. It can be detonated by either heat or shock, which would make it of infinite value to a terrorist. Even the action of dropping a crystal of the fulminate causes it to explode.
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Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite--mercury fulminate has a checkered past. ... Mercury fulminate is very sensitive to shock, friction, and sparks. It explosively decomposes to form mercury, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen. This explosive power was used extensively: Alfred Nobel put...
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070824102049.htm
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300 years after its discovery, the crystal structure of mercury fulminate has been determined. Though well known by alchemists for its explosive capability and later used as a detonator for dynamite, mercury fulminate's crystal structure has been unknown until now. ... Mercury fulminate is very sensitive to shock, friction,
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www.scientificblogging.com/news/solved_the_300_year_old...
www.scientificblogging.com/news/solved_the_300_year_old_mystery_of_mercury_fulminate
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Mercury fulminate made an appearance in last Sunday's episode. He takes a giant sack of the stuff into the druglord's den, passing it off as meth, and uses it as a weapon (see, the druglord will let you bring in drugs, but not guns).
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scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/2008/03/mercury_fulmi...
scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/2008/03/mercury_fulminate_not_to_be_ca.php
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Mercury fulminate is very sensitive to shock, friction, and sparks. It explosively decomposes to form mercury, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen. This explosive power was used extensively: Alfred Nobel put mercury fulminate into blasting caps for detonating dynamite.
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www.physorg.com/news107176552.html
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From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository ... Structural formula of the mercury fulminate molecule ... (Structural formula of mercury fulminate, Hg(ONC)2, self made in ChemDraw by Ben. ~~~~)
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Gunshot Residue Particles Formed by Using Ammunitions That Have Mercury Fulminate Based Primers; Zeichner, A; Head and Scientific Officer, respectively, Toolmarks and Materials Laboratory, Division of Identification and Forensic Science, Israel Police Headquarters, Jerusalem, Israel.;
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