fulminic in English

adjective

unstable, volatile, likely to explode; of fulminic acid, derived from fulminic acid

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1. An explosive salt of fulminic acid fulminate of mercury.

2. An explosive salt of fulminic acid , especially fulminate of mercury.

3. Cyanic acid definition, an unstable, poisonous, liquid acid, HOCN, isomeric with fulminic acid

4. FULMINIC ACID, Hcno or H 2 C 2 N 2 0 2, an organic acid isomeric with Cyanic and cyanuric acids; its salts, termed …

5. The friendship between Wöhler and Liebig began in 1825 after they amicably resolved a dispute over two substances that had apparently the same composition — Cyanic acid and fulminic acid — but very different characteristics: the silver compound of fulminic acid, investigated by Liebig, was explosive, whereas silver cyanate, as Wöhler found, was not.