Mercury(II) fulminate
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mercury-ii-fulminate-162-4465261
title:
Mercury(II) fulminate
text:
Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive. It is highly sensitive to friction, heat and shock and is mainly used as a trigger for other explosives in percussion caps and detonators. Mercury(II) cyanate, though its chemical formula is identical, has a different atomic arrangement, making the cyanate and fulminate anions isomers. First used as a priming composition in small copper caps beginning in the 1820s, mercury fulminate quickly replaced flints as a means to ignite black pow
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Chemical compound
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_fulminate
date created:
2002-06-13T23:10:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T17:22:12Z
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