Fulminates cadmium fulminate

Cadmium fulminate Copper fulminate Dimethylthallium fulminate Diphenylthallium fulminate Mercury(ll) mothyinitrolate Mercury(ll) formhydroxamatc Mercury(ll) fulminate Silver fulminate Sodium fulminate Thallium fulminate... 

Ammonium hexacyanoferrate(II), 2577 f Arsine, 0100 Azido-2-butyne, 1473 3-Azidopropyne, 1114 c /.v-A/obcn/cnc, 3484 Azoxybenzene, 3485 Barium azide, 0214 Benzenediazonium nitrate, 2275 Benzotriazole, 2269 Borane, 0135 Bromine azide, 0256 f 3-Bromopropyne, 1090 f 1,2-Butadiene, 1479 f 1,3-Butadiene, 1480 f Buten-3-yne, 1423 f 1-Butyne, 1481 f 2-Butyne, 1482 Cadmium azide, 3957 Cadmium cyanide, 0588 Cadmium fulminate, 0589 Cadmium nitride, 3960... 

Individually indexed compounds are Cadmium fulminate, 0589 Copper(II) fulminate, 0617... 

Cadmium Diazide. See Vol l,p A526- L Cadmium Fulminate. See under Fulminates... 

I) IF- which readily detonate when ignited cither as loose powder or pressed pellets at pressure as low as ICT torr. Lead, silver and mercuric azides, silver and cadmium fulminates, lead styphnate and m-dinitrobenzdiazonium perchlorate belong to tfiis group of compounds. All the above substances are characterized by a very short period of burning preceding detonation. 

Cadmium fulminate forms white crystals that are soluble in alcohol. It is hygroscopic but dry cadmium fulminate is stable (in desiccator above CaCl2) [15]. 

As opposed to alkaline azides which do not have properties of explosives, alkaline fulminates are mostly reported as highly sensitive and explosive substances [8,107, 108] even though one source mentioned sodium fulminate as not so sensitive (impact sensitivity for NaCNO to be 32 cm with 0.5 kg hammer compared to 7.5-10 cm MF under the same conditions) [27]. Sensitivity of these fulminates is reported as extreme and handling a hazardous operation [8, 107, 108]. Extreme sensitivity is further reported for the rubidium and cesium salts. Alkaline fulminates undergo explosion when initiated by flame, even in small amounts, whereas mercury fulminate only deflagrates. The exact sensitivity data are, however, not reported in this work [107]. Sensitivity of cadmium fulminate to impact is about the same as that of MF sensitivity of thallium fulminate is higher [15, 57]. 

Cupric fulminate and particularly cadmium fulminate are powerful primary explosives. The initiating efficiency of cadmium fulminate is even higher than that of silver fulminate. The initiating temperature and initiation efficiency of... 

The metal fulminates are all powerfully explosive. Of several salts examined, those of cadmium, copper and silver were more powerful detonators than mercury fulminate, while thallium fulminate was much more sensitive to heating and impact. Formally related salts are also explosive [1]. Sodium, potassium, rubidium and caesium fulminates are all easily detonated by feeble friction or heat. They all form double salts with mercury(II) fulminate which also explode readily, that of the rubidium salt at 45 °C [2],... 

Silver Azide, Cadmium Azide, Cupric Azide, Triazidotrinitrobenzene, Chloratotrimercuraldehyde, Nitrogen Suifide Hexamethylenetriperoxidediamine Until WWI, Mercuric Fulminate was the principle initiating agent used, but Lead Azide has now replaced it. Lead azide is not the most powerful azide, but is more stable and less dangerous to handle than some of the other ones. Cadmium Azide, for example, is more powerful than Lead Azide but is unsuitable as an initiating agent because it is difficult to prepare and is soluble in water... 

Reactions with metals. When mercury fulminate is boiled with water containing metallic suspensions, the majority of metals (e.g. aluminium, zinc, copper), form their fulminates and mercury is precipitated. Reaction can also occur at room temperature, except with nickel. Other metals may be ranged according to increasing reactivity silver, tin, bismuth, cadmium, iron, lead, copper, zinc, brass, aluminium. With aluminium, the reaction takes only a few hours, yielding a large amount of A1203. 

Rosenberg [63] investigated the properties of sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, barium, cadmium, cupric, copper, manganese, thallium and silver fulminates and compared them with mercury fulminate. Some of this results are shown in Table 24. 

Martin [64] examined the initiating properties of certain fulminates, and found that silver, cadmium and copper fulminates have stronger initiating properties than mercury fulminate. Table 25 and Fig. 45 show the figures obtained by Wohler and Martin [65], expressed as the smallest amounts of the fulminate of different metals necessary to produce detonation of various high explosives. 

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