fulminate
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ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing.
- : to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- : to issue denunciations or the like: The minister fulminated against legalized vice.
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ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing.
- : to cause to explode.
- : to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like.
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- : one of a group of unstable, explosive compounds derived from fulminic acid, especially the mercury salt of fulminic acid, which is a powerful detonating agent.
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Examples
The gun nuts—and obviously, not all gun owners are nuts, not even a majority—fulminate endlessly about their rights.
With Osama bin Laden inconveniently dead, the party out of power needs someone to fulminate against.
This flare was communicated to the percussion cap, or fulminate of mercury, at the base of the cartridge.
Mercury fulminate is more often employed in the detonator, and is prepared from mercury, alcohol, and nitric acid.
The most tremendous explosives refuse to explode unless some detonator like fulminate of mercury is set off first.
Digest copper (in powder or filings) with fulminate of mercury or of silver, and a little water.
It greatly resembles fulminate of silver in its appearance and general properties.