FULMINATING

Ful″mi‐na″ting (?), a. 1. 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
2. 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. — Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.