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Fulminate (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ful″mi‐nate (?), n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder.

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; — called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.