English
fulminic acid
From fulmine + -ic + acid.
Formed from fulmine + -ic
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to shimmer, gleam, shine’
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Latin fulgeō ‘flash, glare, lighten’
Latin fulmen ‘lightning that strikes or sets on fire’
Latin fulminō ‘lighten, illuminate’
French fulminer
English fulmine
Today it means
noun Iso-cyanic acid, HCNO, an unstable compound which forms explosive salts
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Etymograph / fulminic acid