Talk:Mercury(II) fulminate/Archive 1

Archive 1

Synthesis

I have added a summary of a current synthesis for this substance. I think it is enough for a text book or encyclopedia entry. I have not given my reference as it contains experimental detail.

Socksysquirrel 23:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Preparation

I simplified the Preparation section avoiding too detailed instructions os the explosive preparation. As already duscussed in other articles on explosives, this is not a terrorist handbook (there are plenty of those on the net already)...The preparation is commented, without being a cookbook on its synthesis. JEFCG 17:30, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

And for those of us with curiosity: http://www.roguesci.org/chemlab/energetics/mercury_fulminate.html

Enjoy responsibly 68.0.144.113 (talk) 01:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Nomenclature

Two thots:

1. M(II)fulm surely is what used to be called "fulminate of mercury", and if so that name must also appear in the lead sentence.
2. The "II" sounds like it refers to the doubly ionized state of the Hg atom. Could a better trained chemist than i word such a statment in the lead paragraph? -- Such detail edges toward inside baseball, but less so than the Roman numerals which i don't recall from my college chem. IMO they deserve at least a link like Hg⁺⁺. ... Hmmm, or Mercury#Reactivity and compounds.

--Jerzy•t 23:25, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Removal

I agree with Rifleman. This article was 1/2 trivia so I have removed it per guidelines as none of it explained the subject's impact on popular culture - rather this was simply a listing of appearances. Toddst1 (talk) 22:01, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Should not be replicated

"In Law & Order's Season 7, Episode 6 "Double Blind" the killer uses bullets tipped with fulminated mercury to kill a former school janitor. This scene should not be duplicated as mercury fulminate is a very sensitive explosive and would almost certainly detonate in the firing chamber." Otherwise killing school janitors is ok? ;) --89.204.139.161 (talk) 15:03, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Decomposition

It seems that there is very little chemistry in this article about a chemical compound. I've found several helpful scientific journal entries that, although dated, shed some light on the decomposition reaction of mercury fulminate. Perhaps this section would fit best after the preparation section? NatePhysics (talk) 18:35, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Citation needed? Really?

...supplies of [mercury] can be unreliable in wartime [citation needed].

We need a citation that mercury might be hard to come by in wartime? It's only mined in a handful of countries (ref. cinnabar, the virtually only mineral actually mined for mercury harvesting)... -- 145.228.61.5 (talk) 14:24, 3 September 2015 (UTC)