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fulminates

fulminates is the plural of fulminate.

fulminates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fulminate.

Meaning of fulminate

Noun

fulminate (plural fulminates)

  1. Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
    • On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 193

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Questions about fulminates

What is fulminates the plural of?
Fulminates is the plural of fulminate.

Words near fulminates in the dictionary

  1. fulminant
  2. fulminantly
  3. fulminants
  4. fulminate
  5. fulminated
  6. fulminates
  7. fulminating
  8. fulminating gold
  9. fulminating silver
  10. fulminating silvers
  11. fulmination

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