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mercury fulminate

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mercury fulminate

Highly explosive compound used in detonators and percussion caps. It is a grey, sandy powder and extremely poisonous.
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Peak production was in World War II, when mercury fulminate was needed as a triggering agent in the nation's armaments.
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The prosecutor said Copeland drew on The Terrorists' Handbook in early experiments to make "a proper bomb" using ammonium nitrate as explosive and mercury fulminate as a detonator.
NAZI NAIL BOMBER: WEB OF TERROR; NAZI NAIL BOMBER: HIS FACTORY OF ... by Shaw, Adrian / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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