Fulminate

(noun.) a salt or ester of fulminic acid.

(verb.) cause to explode violently and with loud noise.

(verb.) come on suddenly and intensely; 'the disease fulminated'.

(verb.) criticize severely; 'He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare'; 'She railed against the bad social policies'.

校对:威尔默

• Manton’s British patent No. 4,285, of 1818, describes a thin copper tube filled with fulminate and struck sidewise by the hammer to explode it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The needle gun has in the place of the swinging hammer a rectilinearly sliding bolt, carrying in front a needle which pierces the charge and ignites the fulminate by its friction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• That grayish, pasty mass is wet fulminate of mercury. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Though it was now dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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