Yeh, should be Ag, nor Au. That would be gold fulminate if such a thing exists.
Marshall James Osbourne, Holmes wrote: > Is this a typo? > > "Silver fulminate is Au2C2N2O2" > > James Osbourne Holmes > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>STAINS and H202 use > > Fred wrote: > > > Blow your stains away! > > > > While browsing some government medical abstracts I found > > that silver and ammonia produce a volitile fulminate (explosive) > > and silver and hydrogen peroxide react violently (no chemical > > formation defined) and produce free silver and soluable silver > > compounds, with flames! > > Huh? I think you need to get another reference. Silver fulminate is > Au2C2N2O2. > There is no carbon in silver or ammonia, so it would be impossible to produce > this compound by mixing them. Also how can free silver mixed with ammonia > give a > reaction that produces free silver? That is what you started with. > > > This explains why H202 is a good > > cleaner for silver deposits. (The danger is only with larger amounts > > of powdered silver and H202)! I used to make mercury fulminates > > when young, by mixing ammonia and mercurochrome. The > > precipitate was then painted on door knobs and after drying needed > > only to be lightly touched to explode (like a hand full of caps going off). > > I am unable to find any references that give the composition of mercurochrome, > but I suspect that it has the carbon in it for the fulminate. > > Marshall > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
