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fulminic acid

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fulminic acid

 
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–noun
an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
Origin:
1815–25
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ful·min·ic acid   (fŏŏl-mĭn'ĭk, fŭl-)   
n.  An unstable acid, HONC, that forms highly explosive salts.

[Latin fulmen, fulmin-, lightning that strikes; see fulminate + -ic.]
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