fulminate of mercury

You would have thought a fur tippet was the most exciting thing since fulminate of mercury.

That precipitate you were so lovingly anticipating is fulminate of mercury.

It was a deadly thing - an explosive cap of fulminate of mercury.

These little copper tubes contain fulminate of mercury.

Inside the closed end is a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive material such as fulminate of mercury.

Those of you who know what fulminate of mercury does on contact with water will know what happened next.

I'd forgotten how sensitive fulminate of mercury detonators are.'

It has a regular dynamite cap, fulminate of mercury, and a fuseabout a minute, I suppose.

Though no larger than a pinhead, the bomb had the power of a thousand times its weight in fulminate of mercury.

In this factory, they handled picric acid, nitroglycerine and fulminate of mercury.

The sweet smell of gunpowder and fulminate of mercury, from primers, was thick.

Triggered electrically, by radio or, if they used fulminate of mercury, by sympathetic detonation.

He was on filtration now and telling the class how to dry the fulminate of mercury out on plates of glass.

The bag of meth crystals he has just given Tuco were in fact "fulminate of mercury."

Fulminate of mercury, boss.

All you require is a battery, any old alarm clock, some household flex, a fulminate of mercury detonator, a primer and you're off.

Mercury - fulminate of mercury!

But I have no fulminate of mercury," cried Clark, "no explosive of any kind!

Explosives experts therefore use a fuse which ignites a firing cap, made of fulminate of mercury.

The end of the wire which Clyde had clipped led to a detonating device of fulminate of mercury.

Gunpowder, bullet, cartridge case, and fulminate of mercury percussion cap--all set to go.

Shaw's percussion caps used a mixture of fulminate of mercury, chlorate of potash, and ground glass contained in a small metallic cup.

Stuff em with black powder or gun-cotton, at half the power - but making the firing caps, fulminate of mercury or some such stuff, that's tough work.

In 1690, Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel's book Laboratorium Chymicum described how to make fulminate of mercury.

The shooter placed a percussion cap (now made of three parts of potassium chlorate, two of fulminate of mercury and powdered glass) on the nipple.