Chemical elements
  Carbon
    Isotopes
    Energy
    Production
    Application
    Physical Properties
    Chemical Properties
      Methane
      Ethylene
      Acetylene
      Coal-Gas
      Carbon Tetrafluoride
      Tetrafluoromethane
      Carbon Tetrachloride
      Tetrachloromethane
      Carbon Tetrabromide
      Tetrabromomethane
      Carbon Tetraiodide
      Tetraiodomethane
      Carbon Oxychloride
      Carbonyl Chloride
      Phosgene
      Carbon Oxybromide
      Carbonyl Bromide
      Carbon Suboxide
      Carbon Monoxide
      Carbon Dioxide
      Percarbonic Acid
      Carbamic Acid
      Carbamide
      Urea
      Carbon Disulphide
      Carbonyl Sulphide
      Carbon Oxysulphide
      Thiocarbonyl Chloride
      Thiocarbonic Acid
      Thiocarbamic acid
      Thiourea
      Thiocarbamide
      Perthiocarbonates
      Carbon Monosulphide
      Carbon Subsulphide
      Carbon Sulphidoselenide
      Carbon Sulphidotelluride
      Carbon Nitrides
      Cyanogen
      Dicyanogen
      Hydrocyanic Acid
      Prussic Acid
      Cyanogen Chloride
      Chlorocyanogen
      Cyanogen Bromide
      Bromocyanogen
      Cyanogen Iodide
      Iodocyanogen
      Polymerised Cyanogen Halides
      Cyanamide
      Cyanic Acid
      Cyanuric Acid
      Cyamelide
      Fulminic Acid
      Thiocyanic Acid
      Sulphocyanic Acid
      Isoperthiocyanic Acid
      Cyanogen Sulphide
      Thiocyanic Anhydride
    Diamonds
    Graphite
    Amorphous Carbon
    Coal

Fulminic Acid, CNOH






Fulminic Acid, CNOH, formed the subject of the first investigation of isomerism by Liebig and Wohler, since its salts were found to possess an identical qualitative and quantitative composition with those of cyanic acid. The mercuric salt of this acid is prepared by adding alcohol to a solution of mercury in excess of nitric acid; and the acid itself, which is exceedingly unstable, is obtained in ethereal solution when its mercuric salt, suspended in ether, is decomposed with dry hydrogen chloride. Fulminic acid is also formed and its silver salt obtained when aminomethylnitrosolic acid decomposes in presence of nitric acid and silver nitrate:

ONC(NH2):N-OH → H2O + N2 + C:N-OH.

Methenylamino-oxime, when treated with nitric acid and silver nitrate, also yields silver fulminate:

CH(NH2):N-OH → NH3 + C:N-OH.

It has been shown by Nef and Scholl that the acid is carbyloxime, C=N-OH; Palazzo, however, regards it as tautomeric and a pseudo-acid:

HC≡N=O → C=N-OH.

It is named fulminic acid on account of its explosive properties, and its mercuric salt is much employed for the manufacture of detonators and explosive caps. In accordance with its explosive character, this acid is endothermic, the mercuric salt liberating 116,000 calories per gram molecule on its decomposition into mercury, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide. By the action of concentrated hydrochloric acid on mercuric fulminate the oxime of chloroformaldehyde, , results, whilst dilute acid produces hydroxylamine and formic acid. The spontaneous polymerisation of fulminic acid yields metafulminuric acid (isocyanuric acid), which is probably:



© Copyright 2008-2012 by atomistry.com