Mercury(II) fulminate
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Mercury fulminate is an explosive with the chemical formula Hg2. When recrystallized from water it exists as the hemihydrate 2 Hg2·H2O. The anhydrous form is obtained by recrystallization from ethanol
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Detonator
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A detonator or blasting cap is a small explosive device or small quantity of explosive, which can be combined with a fuse, used for detonating a larger charge of high explosive. Detonators come in a v
Mercury(II) fulminate
…recrystallization from ethanol. It is highly sensitive to friction, heat and shock and is mainly used as a trigger for other explosives in percussion caps and detonators. Mercury(II) cyanate, though its chemical formula is identical, has a different atomic arrangement, making the cyanate and fulminate anionic isomers…
Top: small nonel detonator with 2 ms delay for chaining nonel tubes; middle: class B SPD detonator; bottom: class C SPD detonator
Inserting detonators into blocks of C-4 explosive