Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any
violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as
mercuric fulminate.
Ful"mi*na`tion (?), n. [L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf. F.
fulmination.] 1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.