Fulminating silver

Fulminating silver is the name given to a number of explosive silver-containing substances that "fulminate" or detonate easily and violently.

"Fulminating silver" has no exact chemical or dictionary definition.

It may refer to:

silver fulminate (which, confusingly, is the only "fulminating silver" to be a silver compound with the fulminate anion)
silver azide, AgN₃
a mixture, a decomposition product of Tollens' reagent
silver nitride, Ag₃N^[1]
the alchemical substance "Argentum Fulminans"

See also

Claude Louis Berthollet

References

^ Edward S. Shanley and John L. Ennis (1991). "The chemistry and free energy of formation of silver nitride". Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 30 (11): 2503–2506. doi:10.1021/ie00059a023.