Explanatory notes
… salts include : (A) Fulminates, cyanates, isocyanates and thiocyanates , metal salts of the non-isolated cyanic … acid (HS-C≡N). (1) Fulminates. Fulminates are compounds of more or less unknown composition, very unstable, exploding at a slight shock or under the action of heat (for example, a spark). They …