fulminating mercury

Pyrotechnics: produces torpedo's and seamines and a detonator with Batavian tears, uses fulminating mercury -aurum fulminarum- as an explosive.

(The Science of Revolutionary Warfare: A Little Handbook of Instruction in the Use and Preparation of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Bombs, Fuses, Poisons, Etc., Etc.).