In the late sixteenth century, alchemists made a startling discovery. The element of their dreams - gold - showed a dark side to it`s character. The alchemists used gold as a seed for their transmutational follies, and those who dissolved gold in aqua-regia (3:1 HCl + HNO3) had faith that their financial investment was secure. The products of experimentation (however disappointing) could always be reduced in a furnace to recover the precious metal. Or so they thought - fulminating - exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner
The first alchemist to try mixing his solution of gold in aqua-regia with a foul smelling ammoniacal concoction would have been excited to see a dirty yellow/green precipitate appear. Perhaps this was the "philosopher`s stone" he so desired -
philosophers stone
Unfortunately, the unknown alchemist was no-doubt devastated, both physically and financially, upon determining the properties of the gold hydrazide (AuHN.NH2) he had prepared.
Upon heating, crushing or scratching the dried, dense, olive-green powder, his invested gold would have been vapourised by a chemical decomposition so violent as to endanger his life.
Fulminating Gold was the first high-explosive to be made. Before then, chemical explosions had only been observed when a vigorous exothermic gas-evolving reaction was contained by an enclosure (such as black-powder in a shell-case).
The Variety of Preparations
Fulminating gold is variously described as being a dirty olive-green powder as prepared from auric hydroxide, and as a yellow precipitate - Vogel, mixing a solution of gold chloride and ammonia solution, formulated as Au2O3.3NH3+NH(ClNH2Au)2. Also described is a black powder, when prepared from auric oxide and concentrated ammonia.
The dried powder is extremely sensitive to percussion. Robert Hooke in 1660 put the powder into a spoon, put a heavy coin over it and, by tapping the spoon on a table top, detonated the fulminating gold and sent the coin to the rafters. He used this demonstration of 'exploding without fire' to formulate ideas on combustion, which challenged the Aristotelian doctrine of combustion.
Glauber`s explosive method of gold-plating
Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604 -1668) - mad, rich nail bomber?
Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604 -1668), a German alchemist, experimented with suicidal quantities of fulminating gold. In De Purgatorio Philosophorum - A Treatise Concerning the Purifying Fire, he describes an explosive method of plating steel needles with gold.
He recommends preparing the Aurum Fulminans (exploding gold) by precipitation from the gold solution (in aqua-regia), not by using Salt of Tartar (potassium carbonate, made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate), but with Salt of Urine (ammoniacal salts containing ammonium carbonate).
Preparation of Salt of Urine
Examination of an amber liquid
The preparation of Salt of Urine is a Bacchanalian process, with unpleasant storage problems. Here is an account from The Art of Distillation by John French, 1651.
"Take of the urine of a young man drinking much wine, as much as you please. Let it stand in glass vessels in putrefaction forty days. Then pouring it from its feces, distill it in a glass gourd in sand until all be dry. Then cohobate the said spirit on the caput mortuary three times. Then distill it in a gourd of a long neck and there will ascend, besides the spirit, a crystalline salt which you may either keep by itself, being called the volatile salt of urine, or mix it with its spirit which will thereby become very penetrating if they be digested for some days together."
Cohobate means "To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel", as for caput mortuary.....?
Glauber then describes mixing half an ounce of fulminating gold with a flux as a moderator or damper. Half an ounce of any fulminating compound is a huge quantity.
Only milligrams of silver fulminate is used in 'Snaps', small twists of paper containing fulminate coated sand. They explode when thrown onto a hard surface. Fulminating silver is a topic mentioned several times in "The Young Man`s Book of Amusement".
The amount of fulminating gold Glauber used is frightening because of the unpredictable nature of the substance, particularly when impure. From an alchemical text -
"One must, in this case, submit it to difficult and dangerous manipulations, for one may transform the metal into gold fulminate,... several mortal accidents following upon this preparation. But if the disciple has been instructed in a good school, he will avoid this sophistic snare and operate hermetically; he will thus avert this redoubtable danger."
Note: Fulminating gold is above referred to as gold fulminate. This is incorrect; strictly speaking a fulminate is a salt of fulminic acid CNOH. Gold fulminate Au(OCN) is equally explosive, but is quite different chemically to fulminating gold.
Glauber embeds the needles in his moderated Fulmen (the aurum fulminans and flux mix) and detonates it. The decomposition of the fulminating gold releases gold vapour, which plates the steel needles in a highly spectacular manner. Glauber made explosively plated needles as gifts -
"It is also no contemptible curiosity to see needles changed to gold, their pristine form remaining. I took once 20 or 30 needles, which I put with their points up to the midst in the said Fulmen, their upper halves remaining untouched by it, and after Fulmination took out the needles, the lower part of which was pure gold, the upper continuing Iron, which I distributed amongst my Friends and Lovers of Art for a remembrance. The same may be performed with Nails."
Joseph Glitch, Alchemist, uses his family`s last gold coin
The above is for information only. Please don`t attempt to make fulminating gold.
the very sound you see before your eyes..
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An avid fan of the Cleveland Browns NFL football team.Someone who bleeds brown from having Cleveland Browns in their blood.
On the first day of each month, after someone has said 'pinch and a punch for the first day of the month' and they pinch and punch you, you say 'flick and a kick for being so quick' then obviously you flick and kick them
lol my maths teacher is called this.
‣ Attrachsanarianism (noun): A carefully concealed attraction, such as to a forbidden object of lust.
‣ Sagronoxadorianism (noun): embarrassment at having gone on a stupid, ridiculous or humiliating train of thought, involving the muttering of silly phrases to oneself.
‣ Vulcheireigrity (noun): The turning-back of one's thoughts from decision to indecision, when one was sure the decision had already been made.
‣ Sogonoxitude (noun): The chagrin one feels at one's plan having failed due to an easily avoidable blunder.
‣ Felgenenistehelenocticide (noun): Emphatic surety that one's plan was pointless, combined with the simultaneous realization that one had gotten excited about said plan to an excessive degree.
‣ Sadoxianography (noun): The mapping of a place with one's mind's eye, in order to locate a particular detail in that space.
Live In The Present
Paradyce is the most famous of all runescape players and is also known as the "mother of all procrastinators." When he says tomorrow, he really means a span of 1 month - never.
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It was tall and was black. It was made of satin and another one was made of cotton fibers and cow dung. He baught his hats from a family friend whom was a hat maker. His name was Henry Williams the eigth.
Just a butt that looks like a chinLucifer 22:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Jacobi is a Jewish name... Jason is too
In most cases they have been cracked, chipped, stained or damaged in some manner
an entity that exists in every instance a person makes a statement that they believe to be Deep or Profound or Witty but is actually Stupid and Dull and Witless
A Dinderman is someone who is awful at Halo Reach. They do not stand a chance and give up Unfriggrnbelievapitts to everyone they play. It is a joke. Sometime Andrew Brown plays like a Dinderman and Harry Pitt has to carry him around in his backpack. You do not want to be called a Dinderman; that's like being called a Mexican.
eats penut butter samwhich's. worst enemie goldfish. sounds like nutcracker.
A town near Sydney, Australia with a 3732 population of 32,413. The town members use the octal counting system, so the decimal values are actually 2010 and 13,579. The town's official languages are Vmtorhs (VEM-torse), whose alphabet is: Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A, and Wakstbaak Saakkinkrak (WAXD-bak SAK-in-KRAK), from where the town's name comes from. The Wakstbaak Saakkinkrak alphabet has just 7 letters: WA K S T B I. It can also be called Wakstbi (WAXD-bee) from the sounds of the 7 letters. The IP address for all computers, iPads, iPod Touches, iPhones, etc. in Wakstbaak Saakkinkrak is 173.137.25.6 (123.95.21.6).
Orange crush is a mixture of my penis and radioactive squid splooch
need alot more about zombies
- an insult meaning you are a perverted duck shagger that wears a condom
Surprisingly not "a hotel for bros". Bummer, bro.
The act of ejaculating in ones hand, then "slinging" the seaman on the face or body of a sexual partner. much like the comic book hero, spiderman, shoots his web.
"(computing, programming) a binary format for an XML that can be"
king athur died from morgan la fey and his own son named mordred in jeliousy, he should have been king but not the way he wanted it, its qiute sad, but in shrek 3 he gets a 2nd chance and becomes, king artie of far far away. suck it thanks-
From WT:Feedback:
This is a juicy kitten its a dirty word for juicy pussy and i think its gross personally but my buddie says it.
After this RFV debate, Category:German States was cited as follows:
LEAVE MY MAN ALONE OR i WILL KILL YOU INTO XHOSA LANGUAGE
To participate in the Zegawan ritual.
Used in the imperative as a mild curse. Often used when dropping an object, receiving mild injury, or when in a state of great confusion.
Since it was labelled "English", a Briton pronounced it for us: .
This schizophrenic entry had as its content
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This was posted on WT:TODO with the comment "There's a very small number of old entries imported from Category:Nuttall Encyclopedia which can be cleaned up. This should take no more than 15 minutes. --Rising Sun talk? 02:05, 20 December 2009 (UTC)"
After being ignored for four years, it was finally cleaned up in an indeed short amount of time.
This edit restored a usage example to the entry, one which is reportedly inappropriate. Except the edit never restored anything; the editor forged the edit summary to make it look like he didn’t add it.
Notice the header of the last section that was added.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls - to transfer this into Scottish garlic
hello i would like to know more about the dwarf/dwarven race as where were they originally live and also does the tolkeins descpiton of dwares actually exist or excited. i have been very interested as my family and ancestors may have derived from dwarf/dwarven blood in my family and myself. my family/ancestors and myself have mostly dwarven characteristics. myself,my father, and all fatherd before him are masters of craftmanship and are short stocky and can grow impressive beards. i hope someone can gie me some information about dwarfs/dwarves and anything related thank you anyone reading this as it means alot to me
more power!
Created some time ago by a new user. Badly formatted, badly capitalised, no language or part-of-speech header, and doesn't seem to have any definitions either. Just a lot of promotional content and external link spam. It's also clearly SOP: main + page. —CodeCat 00:52, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Does Wiktionary have a web site? — This unsigned comment was added by 72.215.28.132 (talk).
the steam loler is a steamroller that is made of lols
I created the page brown leaf because of what Equinox had to say about brown leaf. Ready Steady Yeti (talk) 22:52, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
cardiopulmonary arrest occurs when an individuals lungs or heart are under extreme heat from the po and may be arrested on sight for warrants pertaining to drug and alchohol addiction...
One of nongonglia's well know laws is that all the people who live there have to eat fish at least once a week. It is situated inbetween mongolia and twongolia, meaning the landscape is mountainous.
From the deletion log:
Note: originally posted at a redirect to this page. Muphry's law at its finest.
An questionable alternative to Wiktionary:What Wiktionary is not:
This is a list of what Wiktionary is not. We are using this so that you can understand what Wiktionary is not the place for. Enjoy.
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Wiktionary is not anything that counts as porn, which would be considered as uploading pictures of yourself without any clothes on, or only your shirt on.
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Wiktionary is not the place to talk to people while online. If you are here to chat, go to another site.
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Behold, the intensifiers of Old English.
A disease you can get by encountering a sufferer of Rogiebola. If you get Rogiebola, the only cure is isolation for a minimum of 10 Years. You will find that you have a strange American accent and an addiction to games of the 'Spy Espionage' genre. If you get it, you will become a follower the Grand High Rogie. If you encounter him, you will have the disease forever and will be under his spell
Tut mir Leid German for forgive me (Tut mir Kleid -give me dress)
Stojadin -old car (Croatian sto -hundred + jada -miseries).
this is bulgarian word not english — This unsigned comment was added by Vladimirge5 (talk • contribs).
noun: The act of freezing feces in a condom, then using that created object for pleasure whether it be for you or someone else.
cartoon word
darvog
1 a sandwich made out of bread, cheese, ice cream, little more bread, fish sticks, syrup, and another piece of bread
2. a fictional ailment, shown in The Looney Tunes Show.
darvogged
3. very hungry; famished. "Can I have a sandwich? I'm really darvogged!"
1. a combination of USA and Canada into one country
2. USA and Canada referred to as one country "USA and Canada are two regions in Canmerica"
3. USA and Canada as one country "Canmerica has many states, provinces, and territories"
Prefix: a prefix.
What is the antonym of squirrel? --66.190.99.112 11:09, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Addendum: Special:AbuseLog/178268. 17:20, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
I do not conspire to rewrite fact or opinion using my entry as the "one true way", as you so defined the English version of sputtering trivial and /or prevalent information to the rest of the world as they see fit to absorb as the truest defining mentions of any piece of our world. This so-called organized website is the truest example of a farce~the equivalent of a gooses infertile egg. That concludes my editing for the rest of the Earth's existence and the filibustering of this endless website. So put that in your hat and sing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the highest point of this site's defining chatter and wasteful government services for the internet.
sINCEREly, Your confident confidant
Pull the plug on this site before somebody gets hurt — This unsigned comment was added by 54.160.232.112 (talk) at 02:06, 27 December 2014 (UTC).
Initially defined as "gravity will always be in effect".
get engaged (third-person singular simple present get engageds, present participle get engageding, simple past and past participle get engageded)
Someone filed a Request for Cleanup asking people to help clean up ... the requests for cleanup page itself!
The page is almost 300 000 bytes long (at its worst, it was some 450 000), with unresolved issues from as far back as 2008. It's going to need a lot of cleanup... — Beobach 22:10, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Word Used by someone when they forget to put a space between the words before and no.
你拍一，我拍一，一隻小貓坐飛機 (traditional, Pinyin , simplified 你拍一，我拍一，一只小猫坐飞机)
IMHO
1. The verb 'To Waz' in northern English dialect means to urinate.
In both West Yorkshire and East Lancashire, offal was very popular and when produced en masse the offal was cooked in linens ressembling large pillows and were referred to as 'socks'. These prevented the offal from burning and being ruined when coming in to direct contact with the base or sides of its cooking vessel.
Unsurprisingly these linens absorbed the odour of the offal (which is similar to urine) and were discarded. They were colloquially referred to as 'Waz Socks'. The derogatory sense of a 'Wazzock' to this day refers to someone discarded of having any point, purpose or worth.
A national holiday in which you buy anyone named Bethany a beer. And in return you get a high-five. September 25.
Say pineapple lots of times when you're about to sneeze.
Paliyah is the act of a Jew or many Jews (see group paliyah) moving to Perth, the spiritual home for the Jews of Australia.
Steven Strizich was one
"Pennsylvania Dutchland is the land in which le Dutch people used to torture anyone that opposed their coffee revolution of 1769. Their torture included beating people to death with wooden shoes also known as clogs. They clogged them over the head with these so called shoes. This is why the dutch people drink coffee to the extent in which they do today."
-Clog Clogerson 1768
Prince Phillip((四代目火影)). Born July 1st 1632 to Empresses Matilda and King Por quis quis in the Bongosclong province. As a child the prince was kidnapped by ISIS witches and it scared him for life. After being beaten and return to this parent he did not speak for 137 days. When he spoke again his first words were "Dog". After both his Mother and Father past away he took the throne killing all that aposed him (about 7) before being shot dead by Bernie sanders in 1799.
meow meow meow meow meow meow
Insane ganster desciples are a deadly Street gang located on Chicago's South side. Englewood area. And kown to engage in war with the black desciples. Known members are Chicago rappers lil Jay,FBG Duck and King Yella and more. The gang has fallen members such as aiki lil Jojo tooka tutu and k.I most death cases are still unsolved.
A polite directive to take the offered Seat car.
When the Interstate goes down into a valley.
A rapper who used to eat sardines for dinner.
A garlic knot crusted tilefish. Yum yum yum b*tches!
Overseas Jamaicans are people of Jamaican descent who live outside Of Jamaica but were born to Jamaican immigrant parents, or Jamaican migrant workers.
Regions with significant population: 🇨🇳 China: 34- k 🇧🇷 Brazil: 17 million 🇭🇰🇲🇴 Hong Kong and Macau ( China ): 1995- k 🇨🇱 Chile: 13,56 🇮🇱 Israel: 1290 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 123,667 🇺🇸 united States: 87 million 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 123 k 🇪🇬 Egypt: 14 billion 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1600 🇬🇪 Georgia: 1566 🇸🇳 Ghana: 34 k 🇰🇷 south Korea: 45 k 🇯🇵 Japan: 233,677 🇪🇸 Spain: 46,000 🇬🇷 Greece: 345,678
History During the 1856 Kingston massacre (Battle of Kingston), the 1913-1917 hurricane yusfrz and the 1907 Jamaica earthquake, many Jamaicans fled Jamaica and settled forever in foreign countries Where they had a better life. In 1909, spies from Jamaica found a Korean-born family with Kingston ancestry in Seoul, Joseon dynasty.
Jamaican civil war ( 1905-1932 ) Over 17 billion Jamaicans fled Jamaica During the Jamaican civil war between the Jamaican republic and The empire of Haiti. Although the empire of Haiti lost the Jamaican civil war, Many victims of the Jamaican civil war were killed and Many were forced to flee and settle to Ghana and south Korea.
Religion Shinto Buddhism Hinduism Tao Roman Catholic Jewish Muslim Arab Islam Karol Christian
A Pool Located At The University Of Miami, Go Canes!
The power of the fist is an assertion wherein it is proposed that if you make love to a woman and she experiences nirvana - the man shall be the victor in any future argument.
I am about to eat some McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, in case anyone wanted to know. bd2412 T 00:35, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
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When I found out how Wiktionary defined "clickbait", it blew my mind! You'll never believe what happened next! |
A concoction of various types and flavors leftover Mountain Dew with random and outrageous additions including, but not limited to: jalepeno juice, cheese balls, Red Vines, cheese balls, airborne, paprika. It received its name after one individual tasted it and subsequently reported that "it tasted like death."
"A pejorative name for a marine biologist."
(phrasebook) Said by lost time travellers.
The origin of the saying, comes from Ancient Greece. In the early years Zues was furious that no one would claim responsibility for their bodily actions. So he made it law that "he who has smelt it, has dealt it". The first person to have this line used on them was Achilles.
Cokeville high school is nothing but a horror show.
YoungMob originated in Walkaholmes. King side of Walkaholmes were Bloods and Vice Lords ran Walkaholmes. Our OG is OOOG Boo Dirty. Our turf was behind Tom's store and our rivals was 720 Gangsta Disciples. Their turf was behind Night and Day corner store. We are a group of adults to teenagers that live fast. Mob or none.
First attested in 2012. Made popular after the winning song in Eurovision.
An extreme feeling or state of excitement whenever one hears a great song.
Meijers in Michigan are better when you're not a virgin.
To have sex in a roller coaster while drinking shots of pink tequila.
Per fare sesso in un ottovolante, mentre beve colpi di tequila rosa.
Examples:
Ho fatto scogliere, era tantisimmi tension.
So you can type anything here-
If you feed a human body to pigs, they will eat just about all of it except the teeth. Several murderers in rural areas have used this fact to their advantage.