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A study has been made of the slow thermal and photochemical decomposition of mercury, silver, sodium and thallous fulminates. The products of decomposition were analyzed using a variety of physical techniques and optical and electron microscopes were used to examine some of the crystals. The decomposition of the fulminates is complex but the rate-determining step probably involves bond rupture in the covalent fulminates. A simplified model based on electron transfer is postulated for sodium and thallous fulminates. A possible explanation for the extreme sensitivity of the ionic fulminates is proposed.
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Boddington et al. (1969) studied this question.
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