fulminating mercury is a noun meaning "a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps". It carries one recorded sense.
a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fulminating mercury come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.