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/fˈʊlmənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Fulminate v. t.

To cause to explode.

To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. "They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees."

Fulminate v. i. (past & past part. fulminated; pres. part. fulminating)

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

noun

Fulminate n. (Chem.)

(a)

A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

(b)

A fulminating powder.

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... reporter, "but it depends on you. Procure us some iron for the barrels, steel for the hammers, saltpeter. coal and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate, and lead for the shot, and the captain will make us ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... certain substance sold Under the name of fulminate of gold, A high explosive, popular for blasting, Producing ...

— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce

... continue their press to war against the rights and privileges of the people, Mr. Bunce as a faithful centinel, will remain firm at his post. What though a gang of office-holders should "in the mild spirit of Christian humility" (see page 7 of the book) fulminate their maledictions against him; the people will not be frightened into submission, nor ...

— A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen" • An Elector

... giants then," says Hugo, "there was one Titan—Cambronne. The man who won the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, put to rout; not Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, desperate at five; not Bluecher, who did not fight. The man who won the battle of Waterloo was Cambronne. To fulminate at the thunderbolt which kills ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... much more quickly than gunpowder does. It were better to say that a powder detonates when it all explodes at the same instant. Gunpowder appears to do so, but in reality it does not. One of the best detonators is fulminate of mercury. Detonating caps are therefore made of this, and one such cap put into the middle of that cartridge of dynamite and set fire to, by any means, would convert the cartridge itself into a detonator, and explode ...

— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne

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