A considerable effervescence and ebullition will immediately be produced in the crucible, attended with a noise like that which Nitre makes, when it detonates with an inflammable matter.
Ammoniacal Salts projected upon nitre in fusion make it detonate; and the Nitrous Sal Ammoniac detonates by itself, without the addition of any inflammable matter.
Nitre mixed with Zinc, and projected into a red-hot crucible, detonates with violence, and during the detonation there rises a great quantity of white flowers, like those which appear when it is calcined by itself.
Upon ignited coals, it detonates loudly like fulminating gold, which see below.
Phosphorus detonates with this salt either by trituration or percussion.
As this salt, when mixed with inflammable substances, detonates when struck with a hammer, it has been used for the purpose of inflaming gunpowder without the use of the flint and steel.
Its union with azote produces a singular substance, which detonates with great violence, when slightly touched or heated.
The perchlorate detonates feebly when triturated with sulphur.
When exposed to the air oil of turpentine absorbs ozone; with iodine it detonates violently.
With sodium the oil does not evolve hydrogen gas; it detonates with iodine.
It turns the plane of polarization strongly to the left; acquires, on standing with sodium, a red coloration, and detonates with iodine.
If fulminating silver be pressed with a hard body in its moist state, it detonates with unparalleled violence; nay, when touched even with a feather, in its dry state, it frequently explodes.
The fresh oil detonatesslightly when mixed with iodine, with the production of a yellow cloud.
Being mixed with nitrate of potassa and inflamed, it detonates with vehemence.
Mixed with carbonate of potassa, it is inflamed by a stroke of the hammer, and detonates violently.
Tin detonates with nitre; and if the crystals made by the solution of copper in the nitrous acid be inclosed in tinfoil, nitrous fumes will be emitted, and the whole will become red hot.
It detonates with nitre, and what remains of equal parts of nitre and regulus of antimony after detonation, in a hot crucible, is called diaphoretic antimony.
True; I recollect perfectly that hydrogen detonates with oxygen when the two gases are converted into water.
Davy obtained very curious results from burning potassium in a mixture of phosphorus and muriatic acid, and also of sulphur and muriatic acid; the latter detonates with great violence.
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