AURUM FULMINANS, fulminating or thundering gold. See AURUM FULMINANS. It is inflammable, not only by fire, but also by a gentle heat and gives a report much louder than that of gunpowder.
Its effect is commonly said to be principally downwards; in opposition to gunpowder, which is chiefly upwards; but this rather seems a vulgar error. See GUN-POWDER.
A scruple of this powder acts more forcibly than half a pound of gunpowder: a single grain laid on the point of a knife, and lighted at the candle, goes off with a greater noise than a musket.—It is said to consume even to the very last atom.
AURUM FULMINANS
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