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ful·minic acid (ful min′ik)

an unstable isomer of cyanic acid, known chiefly in the form of highly explosive, shock-sensitive salts used as detonators

Etymology: < L fulmen, lightning (see fulminate) + -ic

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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