Mercury fulminate, the super-sensitive explosive with a nefarious 300-year history, has been so difficult to handle in the lab that only now have scientists finally determined its crystal structure.
Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite--mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German ...
Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite—mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German ...
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