Forsyth in 1807, and consisted of priming with a fulminating powder made of chlorate of potash, sulphur and charcoal, which exploded by concussion.
From the moral side, we find Church councils fulminatingdesperately against the celebration of marriages in private houses or taverns, sometimes even after midnight, and with the natural concomitants of riot and excess.
For three years Solyman had industriously prepared, gathering the resources of his wide dominion to the task and fulminating infinite disaster to the infidels.
Sigismund led an army, one hundred thousand strong, into the revolted land, fulminating vengeance as he marched.
He experimented with one can by means of a fulminating cap.
He had a loaded revolver hid under his coat; a file-grooved dagger and a fulminating cap, used to explode dynamite bombs.
He had a belt, a dagger, and a fulminating cap on him when arrested, but he said he carried them for protection.
Detective William Jones testified that he had a locksmith open a closet in Spies office, and in a desk were found two bars of dynamite, a long fuse, a box of fulminating caps, some letters, and copies of both the celebrated circulars.
Agamemnon, meanwhile, remembered a recipe he had read somewhere for making a "fulminating paste" of iron-filings and powder of brimstone.
But there was an unpleasant and terrible odor from the "fulminating paste.
Oh, I promise you to be very well behaved whenever we are met together; and as for the fulminating balls, I promise you never to have anything to do with them; but when winter comes, how shall we manage then?
Wohler some time since announced the production of cyanic acid, and cyanates, corresponding in composition to the substance presumed to exist in the fulminating compounds of silver, mercury, &c.
The explosion is as powerful as that of fulminating silver; a solution of chloride of potassium to which carbazotate of baryta has been added, produces a precipitate of the potash salt, and not more than 1-1/2 per cent.
It was formerly used to fill percussion caps, but was abandoned for fulminating mercury, on account of its disposition to rust the nipples of the guns.
The spirit obtained from the manufacturers of fulminating mercury frequently contains no inconsiderable quantity of hydrocyanic acid.
The former has also the disadvantage of not keeping so well as the latter, and of depositing a portion of fulminating silver, under some circumstances, which renders its use dangerous.
The picrate of lead has been proposed as a fulminating powder for percussion caps.
When the fulminating instruments were read before them, in which was this passage, "we will fill your faces with ignominy," their countenances fell.
Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
Percussion lock, the lock of a gun that is fired by percussion upon fulminating powder.
Percussion cap, a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder.
Percussion powder, powder so composed as to ignite by slight percussion; fulminating powder.
Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound.
This substance is to be distinguished from the black "fulminating silver" obtained by C.
The first fulminate prepared was the "fulminating silver" of L.
Happily nothing of the sort happened, and a few hours afterwards the projectile-compartment rested on its pyroxyle bed, a veritable fulminating pillow.
He intended to be gone a year, but returned at the end of six weeks, fulminating abuse of European cooking.
One fourth of a grain of Fulminating Silver is to be inclosed in a small piece of paper, and put inside the snuffers; on the snuffers being applied to the candle, a smart report will follow.
A vast number of other Fulminating objects might be prepared by the same means as here used, as it must have been observed, the Silver detonates either by friction or heat.
The best place to purchase the principal materials are the undermentioned places: for the Fulminating Silver, and Brugnatelli's Ditto, is Messrs.
The Spider is formed after the manner of the common spider, it has a glass body, into which is put one third of a grain of fulminating silver.
A piece of stout deal shaving might be used, prepared in the same manner as directed for the Fulminating Cards.
Can there be any wonder that this disease is so fulminating in the hands of the average medical man or can there be any surprise at the death rate?
Or if the primary irritation is subjected to a light form of toxic infection the development of the disease will be much more insidious and will require much more time to come to its maturity, or its fulminating stage.
In France, where experiments were conducted with a 37 millimeter Maxim gun, it was found to be impracticable to use a fulminating cap sufficiently large to ignite the powder and cause it to burn.
In small cartridges a large fulminating cap is all that is required, but in large cartridges it is necessary to resort to additional means of ignition.
If smokeless powder be divided into sufficiently small grains to be ignited by an ordinary fulminating cap, it would burn too quickly, thereby causing the pressure to mount too high, and without giving the desired velocity.
Smokeless powder, made as I have described, cannot be detonated by a fulminating cap of any size or by any means whatever.
Consequently very large and strong fulminatingcaps have to be employed.
Many substances are decomposed at a very moderate temperature; for instance, the fulminating salt which is employed in cartridges is decomposed at a little above 120°.
A poet polishes words until they glitter with beauty, charging them with fulminating meaning--straightway he is called mad by men who sweat and toil on the stock exchange.
Through the mists that were gathering he savoured a fulminating bouquet of patchouli, musk, bergamot, and he recalled the music of Mascagni.
The powder and fulminating composition being always in contact in every cartridge, it is obvious that a chance shot may explode the whole boxful; and we have proved by experiment that this is not an imaginary danger.
The fulminating powder, being in the base of the cartridge, is exploded by the blow of the hammer, which falls directly upon it.
In addition to the fulminating compounds and the explosive substances already named, which are among the most remarkable instances of unstable affinity with which we are acquainted, we have also the well-known pungent body, ammonia.
Many chemical combinations, as the chloride of potassium and sulphur explode with a blow; whilst the slightest friction occasions the detonation of the fulminating salts of silver, mercury, and gold.
This electric action is analogous to that which is obtained by means of the fulminating plate, which is made of glass with metallic plates.
