Fulminated+Mercury

Fulminated Mercury, or Mercury II Fulminate is a primary explosive used in blasting caps and percussion caps. It reacts upon friction or shock, and is also toxic. It is grey and cristalline in appearance. First used as a priming composition in small copper caps after the 1800s, fulminated mercury quickly replaced flints to light black powder charges in muzzle loading firearms. Fulminated Mercury is made by dissolving mercury into nitric acid and adding ethanol. It was first made by Edward Charles Howard in 1800, but the crystal structure was not discovered until 2007. Silver fulminate is prepared in a similar way, but this salt is evenn more unstable than the mercury, and can even detonate underwater is hit with something, or rubbed against something. Fulminated Mercury's explosive velocity is 4520 m/s.

-Its molecular formula is Hg(CNO)2

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