Silver fulminate
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Silver fulminate is the highly explosive silver salt of fulminic acid.
The needles of silver fulminate
Christmas cracker
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Christmas crackers are festive table decorations that make a snapping sound when pulled open, and typically contain a small gift, paper hat and a joke. They are part of Christmas celebrations in the U
Silver fulminate
…even when detonated against skin) due to the buffering effect provided by the much greater mass of the gravel medium. It is also the chemical found in Christmas crackers having first been used for that purpose by Tom Smith in 1860. The chemical is painted on one of two narrow strips of card, with abrasive on the second…
Christmas crackers
Dinner party guests pull a cracker
Catalogue for Tom Smith's Christmas Novelties from 1911
Norman Rockwell (1919)