fulminic acid

1. 1.

   (CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about fulminic acid

What does fulminic acid mean?

fulminic acid means "(CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic acid".

Is fulminic acid a common word?

fulminic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.