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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ful·mia·ic a.  Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically Chem., pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
 Fulminic acid Chem., a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc.  Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 fulminic acid
      n : (CNOH) an unstable acid occurring mainly in the form of
          explosive salts and esters that is isomeric with cyanic
          acid