Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mercury_fulminate

1 sense of mercury fulminate

Sense 1
mercury fulminate, fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury -- (a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps)
       => fulminate -- (a salt or ester of fulminic acid)