Fulminating gold is a light- and shock-sensitive yellow to yellow-orange amorphous heterogeneous mixture of different polymeric compounds of predominantly gold(III), ammonia, and chlorine that cannot be described by a chemical formula. Here, "fulminating" has its oldest meaning, "explosive" (from Latin fulmen, lightning, from verb fulgeo, 'I shine'); the material contains no fulminate ions. The best approximate description is that it is the product of partial hydrolysis of . Upon combustion, it produces a purple vapor. The complex has a square planar molecular geometry with a low spin state.[1]
Generally, it is best to avoid accidentally creating this substance by mixing gold(III) chloride or hydroxide salts with ammonia gas or ammonium salts, as it is prone to explosion with even the slightest touch.[2]
Very explosive when dry. Fulminatinggold – a number of gold based explosives which "fulminate", or detonate easily. – gold hydrazide, formed by adding...
of chloroauric acid. The hydrolysis of this compound produces fulminatinggold. "Gold Nitrate". ESPI Metals. Oliver Büchner; Mathias S. Wickleder (2004)...
naval mines, detonators that used glass Batavian tears, and worked on fulminatinggold (aurum fulminans) as an explosive. He was known for his Perpetuum Mobile...
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Silver nitride was formerly referred to as fulminating silver, but this can cause confusion with silver fulminate or silver azide, other compounds which have...
alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and...
nitroglycerin, using a blasting cap made of a copper percussion cap and mercury fulminate. In 1864, Alfred Nobel filed patents for both the blasting cap and his...
and dissolve the bathroom floor below it? Can a chunk of solid mercury fulminate thrown on the ground explode, kill or injure bystanders, and break nearby...
contemporary for some tastes," but allowed "great fun to watch as he fumes and fulminates." In 2005, Hawke starred in the Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe's dark...
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other metals and is less sensitive to shock and friction than mercury fulminate or lead azide. It is stable in storage, even at elevated temperatures...
and mercury(II) iodide, and others are explosive, such as mercury(II) fulminate. No use for any of these compounds in nuclear weapons has been publicly...
attempts to raise the wick, a mechanism hidden within the lamp containing fulminated mercury will detonate, igniting the lamp which is actually filled with...
nitrate is used to prepare some silver-based explosives, such as the fulminate, azide, or acetylide, through a precipitation reaction. Treatment of silver...
same total charge. A classical example is the cyanate ion O=C=N− and the fulminate ion C−≡N+−O−. It is also extended to ionic compounds, so that (for example)...
hydrogen in the case of fulminic acid H−C≡N+−O−, or halogen, e.g., chlorine fulminate Cl−C≡N+−O−). They and are used in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions.: 1187–1192 ...
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