Definitions for fulminate

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fulminate ful·mi·nate

Spelling: [fuhl-muh-neyt]

IPA: /ˈfʌl məˌneɪt/

Fulminate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 538 anagrams from letters in fulminate (aefilmntu).

Definitions for fulminate

verb (used without object)

1. to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
2. to issue denunciations or the like (usually followed by against):

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to explode.
2. to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like.

noun

1. one of a group of unstable, explosive compounds derived from fulminic acid, especially the mercury salt of fulminic acid, which is a powerful detonating agent.

Origin of fulminate

1375-1425; late Middle English fulminaten Latin fulminātus (past participle of fulmināre) thundered, equivalent to fulmin- (stem of fulmen) thunderbolt, lightning + -ātus Examples for fulminate

This dissolves in 36 parts of boiling water, but the solution deposits the greater portion of the fulminate as it cools.

fulminate of mercury should only be dried in small parcels at a time, and these should be placed at a distance from each other.

One day his master gave him about half a pound of this fulminate compound.

But if the fulminate is placed in the head of a rocket, this objection may be obviated.

Had that weight fallen upon the fulminate, it must have dealt death to all of us.

I have stated that my maximum product of fulminate from 100 grs.

The air was shocked by fulminate blasts—the signals of the careless Scheff.

It came about that one day I was in need of fulminate of mercury.

The excellence of the fulminate may be ascertained, by the following characters.

We do not fulminate against a treatise on Quaternions because it lacks humor.