Definition of fulminate Fulminate

/fʊˈlmʌnejˌt/ - [fulmuneyt] - ful•mi•nate

We found 17 definitions of fulminate from 6 different sources.

What does fulminate mean?

Noun Plural: fulminates
fulminate - a salt or ester of fulminic acid
		salt the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
Verb fulminates, fulminating, fulminated
fulminate - cause to explode violently and with loud noise
		detonate, set off, blow up, explode burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
fulminate - come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
		come along, appear come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"
fulminate - criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
		rail
		denounce speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis"

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fulminate (v. i.)
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
fulminate (v. i.)
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
fulminate (v. t.)
To cause to explode.
fulminate (v. t.)
To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
fulminate (v. i.)
A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
fulminate (v. i.)
A fulminating powder.

fulminate
ful′min-āt, v.i. to thunder or make a loud noise: to issue decrees with violence, or with menaces of grave censure.—v.t. to cause to explode: to send forth, as a denunciation—(Milt.) Ful′mine.—n. a compound of fulminic acid with mercury, &c.—adj. Ful′minant, fulminating: (path.) developing suddenly.—n. a thunderbolt, explosive.—adj. Ful′minating, crackling, exploding, detonating.—n. Fulminā′tion, act of fulminating, thundering, or issuing forth: a chemical explosion: a denunciation.—adjs. Ful′minatory; Fulmin′eous, Ful′minous, pertaining to thunder and lightning; Fulmin′ic, pertaining to an acid used in preparing explosive compounds. [L. fulmināre, -ātum—fulmen (for fulgimen), lightning—fulgēre, to shine.]

fulminate
A salt of fulminic acid. Fulminate of mercury is the most useful. It explodes readily by percussion, by a heat of 367° Fahr., when touched with strong sulphuric or nitric acid, by sparks from flint and steel and by the electric spark. It is used for percussion-caps, primers, fuzes, etc. From its peculiar power to produce detonations it is the detonating agent for modern blasting powders, containing nitro-glycerine, also, for gun-cotton. Detonating caps, or exploders, are copper caps containing from 3 to 25 grains of the fulminate. In ordinary blasting, where the tube fuze is used, the cap is placed on the end of the fuze and crimped around it. The cap is then buried a short distance in the blasting charge, or cartridge. See EXPLOSIVES.