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Definition of Fulminic acid
1. Noun. (CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic acid.
Definition of Fulminic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) Iso-cyanic acid, HCNO, an unstable compound which forms explosive salts ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulminic Acid
Literary usage of Fulminic acid
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1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"He based this formula chiefly on two reactions which fulminic acid undergoes.
... The production of ammonium thiocyanate suggests that in fulminic acid ..."
2. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1913)
"The Structure of fulminic acid. The presence of bivalent carbon in fulminic acid
has been demonstrated by Nef.1 Mercury fulminate, which was discovered by ..."
3. Elements of chemistry, including the applications of the science in the arts by Thomas Graham (1842)
"fulminic acid exists in certain fulminating compounds of silver and mercury, ...
fulminic acid is formed by the action of an excess of nitric acid and ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1858)
"That half tho carbon and half the nitrogen in fulminic acid arc so arranged ...
That the remaining half of the nitrogen exists in fulminic acid in the same ..."
5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"Free fulminic acid is a very unstable, volatile substance: it has an odour ...
According to NEF, the formula of fulminic acid is C=X.OH, containing a ..."
6. Elements of chemistry: theoretical and practical by William Allen Miller (1868)
"(505) fulminic acid. — Besides the remarkable oxides of cyanogen already mentioned,
there is another acid which yields on analysis the same per-centage of ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science in the Arts by Thomas Graham (1842)
"fulminic acid exists in certain fulminating compounds of silver and mercury, ...
fulminic acid is formed by the action of an excess of nitric acid and ..."
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