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单词 fulminating powder
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fulminating powder
fulminating powder n. now historical any of various violently explosive or combustible powders; esp. a mixture of nitre, potash, and sulphur used in firearms, etc.
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1664 Minute 6 July in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1930) VI. 186 Mr. Hooke moved, that the experiment might be made with fulminating powder.
1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks 24 There is another sort of fulminating powder, called fulminans aurum.
1917 Workshop Receipts (new ed.) I. 396/2 Two narrow strips of stiff paper,..are placed over each other with a little fulminating powder between.
2009 P. O. K. Krehl Hist. Shock Waves ii. 51/1 The percussion lock..used a small pill of detonating explosive (fulminating powder) placed below a plunger at the entrance to the touchhole.
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