The Official DU Word Of Today Is: Fulminate (Please use in a sentence)

[matcom]

thank you.

[GOPisEvil]

1. On this site, daily, users fulminate toward George Bush.

:shrug:

[napi21]

2. That's fine, but you need to define what that means!!!

ful·mi·nate Listen: < flm-nt, fl- >
v. ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing, ful·mi·nates
v. intr.


To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.

To explode or detonate.
v. tr.


To issue (a denunciation, for example) thunderously.

To cause to explode.
n.

An explosive salt of fulminic acid, especially fulminate of mercury.

[matcom]

5. no i don't. THAT isn't fun

i provide the word. its up to YOU to look it up

[ET Awful]

3. Fulminate was dictionary.com's word of the day for March 26, 2000.

There, I used it in a sentence (and one that can be backed up by evidence):

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fulminate

[matcom]

6. now THAT'S cheating!

:D

[punpirate]

4. Fulminate of mercury...

... is a favored armament additive of the right-wing militia....

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Not An Additive

It's an old initiator that is used to trigger the more powerful, but safer organonitrates like TNT, PETN, Torpex, or Semtex. Those things won't blow up without a shock wave, high heat, inducing initial detonation. Three pieces to a chemical HX. The fulminate is the middle one!

Yeah, i'm on file with the FBI over this sort knowledge. So, i have to be a good boy.
The Professor

[punpirate]

22. I'm talking about bullets...

... and in that instance, it's added to existing slugs. It's an additive....

Play semantics with someone else who's not so well-armed. :)

Cheers.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. What Is That?

Is that an explosive projectile then? That seems stupid. Mercury fulminate is not very shock stable. A crystal more than 1/8th inch in length and greater than 100 microns in thickness can explode just from breaking it with a knife.

Putting it in a bullet seems a potential way to have it detonate in the barrel. Seems kind of stupid.
The Professor

[KG]

7. Fulminate THIS!

(grabs crotch)

[Robb]

8. Three cherry pies and a gallon of milk each:

...That's what the fulminate. :D

[mom cat]

9. Two, Four Six Eight..I am going to fulminate!

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

10. After months at sea the sailor fulminated the coxswain

:hi:

[matcom]

13. heh.

you said coxswain :rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

11. Google says the word of the day is bagatelle, so.......

People on DU often fulminate about bagatelles.

:7

[underpants]

12. Yep "Fulminate" was the word of the day over 3 years ago

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/05/21.html

[matcom]

14. i don't use dictionary.com!

:eyes:

[Richardo]

15. I hate to let my gas tank get below half ful,minate-ure is to top it off

:)

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Fulminate Of Mercury Is An Initiating Explosive

Happy now?
The Professor

[matcom]

17. quite

thank you sir. :D

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Betcha Didn't Expect That One, Didja?

The Professor

[matcom]

19. you did catch me off guard a tad

:D

[Shell Beau]

21. Fulminate sounds like a sexual term.