Silver Fulminate

In the chemistry lab, silver can be altered to create many different compounds that have other uses. In this presentation, we’ll go over silver fulminate and its uses.

1. Silver Fulminate
Characteristics and usage of this precious metal
compound

2. Silver Uses and Compounds
•On its own, silver has anti-microbial
propertiesthat make it useful for creating
sterile equipment or environments.
•It finds use in the medical setting preventing
infections –saving lives.
•In the chemistry lab, silver can be altered
to create many different compounds that
have other uses. In this presentation, we’ll
go over silver fulminate.

3. Creating Silver Fulminate
•When silver metal is dissolved in nitric acid, the
result is silver nitrate.
•Silver nitrate is actually a common starting point for
creating many other compounds.
•When silver nitrate is mixed
with ethanol, it creates silver
fulminate.

4. Properties of Silver Fulminate
•Silver fulminate is an extremely sensitive and volatile.
•Any of the following can set off silver fulminate:
•Heat
•Pressure
•Electricity (including static discharge from clothing)
•Impact (a feather brushing it, a water droplet falling on it,
moving it, etc.)
•More silver fulminate (silver fulminate will detonate from the
stress of its own weight if it exceeds a few milligrams)

5. Uses for Silver Fulminate
•Since it can’t be easily transported or produced in
mass quantities, applications for silver fulminate
are extremely limited.
•Because of those factors, silver fulminate is chiefly
used to produce bang-snaps –the teardrop-shaped
paper firecrackers that are popular with kids during
New Year’s and the Fourth of July.

6. Bang-Snap Ingredients
•The average bang-snap is made with about 200
milligrams of gravel, impregnated with about 0.08
milligrams of silver fulminate.
•Even though silver fulminate is a dangerous
compound on its own, the bang-snap’s
construction renders it harmless.

7. Gravel to Silver Fulminate Ratio
•One bang-snap contains about 2500% more gravel
than silver fulminate.
•This inert-to-explosive mass ratio buffers the
violent detonation of the silver fulminate to make it
non-destructive.

8. Silver Fulminate Appreciation
•The next time you're playing with bang-snaps -
remember the greater potential power they
represent and the chemistry that makes it possible!

9. About MGS
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Manhattan’s historic Diamond District since 1985. We are a B2B company that
buys and recycles precious metal scraps that accumulate in other businesses.
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