Mercury (II) fulminate, or simply mercury fulminate is a primary explosive, sensitive to friction and shock, widely used in the past as trigger for other explosives in percussion and blasting caps, now largely replaced by other less toxic, more stable and less corrosive primers, such as lead styphnate or tetrazene derivatives. It has the chemical formula Hg (CNO)2. Although some sources ...
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Jack Parsons and Mercury Fulminate? i was thinking about the recent mythbusters episode/special where they threw 50g of mercury fulminate at 60mph and it did not explode and then i thought about how jack parsons was said to have died from dropping mercury fulminate while mixing it in a cofee can.
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Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite—mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German ...
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