Still felt fairly shitty, until just moments ago, although meds have been keeping my stomach inside rather than outside, taking the antibiotics, and just had another shot of morphine, 12mg ondansetron (antiemetic, mostly use is in chemotherapy, for the less pleasant amongst the unpleasant chemo regimes, so its FAR more effective than anything over the counter (although horribly expensive to the NHS, still, somehow managed to get a script for it. And for a strongly antiemetic/antinauseant antihistamine of the sedating type, cyclizine, although thats (just about) over the counter (many places won't sell it anyway because it can be used to potentiate opiates and whilst most sedating antihistamines would do the same for some reason there was at least at some point some sort of hype about cyclizine in particular, making it hard to get, just in case whoevers buying it wants to make something like H feel nicer than it already does. A thoroughly pathetic reason, or what? when 99.95% of people wanting to buy any would be doing so because they are sick. Thankfully again I have a script) But using both, its really been helping. The cyclizine works really fast, whilst the ondansetron, while VERY effective, takes some time to act, the cyclizine works fast enough if plugged, in an emergency, to stop vomiting/severe nausea/both of the worst kind quick enough that it often even makes a gout of barf reverse direction and go down again before one blows chunks.
And lol at 'fulminated'. I'd hardly go that far. Although I like the eloquent choice of wording Hyke. Not in common use these days. Mostly in chemistry actually, 'fuminate' referring to salts of the extremely unstable fuminic acid, a compound isomeric with isocyanic acid (isocyanic acid having the structure H-N=C=O whereas fulminic acid exists as a pair of tautomeric structures in resonance with each other, both of structure HCNO, but alternating between H-C=-N-O with a triple bond between carbon and nitrogen, the nitrogen bearing the positive charge and the negative charge distributed over the oxygen atom, in the other tautomer it exists as H-C=N-O where the carbon bears the positive charge and oxygen the negative again. Exists in equilibrium with each rapidly interchanging and changing back again. Highly unstable, explosive and quite toxic.
Best known are mercury fulminate and silver fulminate, (the latter not to be confused with 'argentum fulminans' or fulminating silver, similar to fulminating gold and fulminating platinum, which don't contain the fulminate anion, aurum fulminans, again containing no fulminate anion itself, is an odd, non-stoichiometric, polymeric material that explodes violently upon the merest trace (its of no practical use as an explosive, only as a laboratory curiosity. And most perculiarly the product of its detonation is a violet-colored or purple vapor. Makes me think, due to its only other elements present in the molecule, chlorine, hydrogen and nitrogen, that it might be detonating liberating elemental gold and only other gaseous products, and due to the ultra-fine nature of a particulate prepared in such a manner, that the gold might be colloidal. Going on that, because colloidal gold doesn't look gold in color, but when dilute at least in glass, (such a roman cup discovered, the lycurgus cup, the only known, whole intact example of its kind featured a carefully graven glass chalice surrounded by parts in metal, and due to the way the colloidal gold, at extreme dilution in the glass (in this case, the lycurgus cup used a mixture of colloidal silver and colloidal gold, and depending on the way this special dichroic glass was lighted, viewed with the light source from the front, or back, would look either reddish-purple, or green if viewed when the light source is from the front. The color itself isn't a pigment, but rather, its due to the dilution levels within the glass, being insufficient, diffuse (as with a vapor perhaps from the aurum fulminans compound) enough not to completely block the light, but rather, make it diffract as it passes through the glass in such a way as to cut out certain spectral wavelengths in the visual range, whilst internally refracting and passing others)
I'd be really curious to see what the decomposition product looks like if a sample were detonated in a way such as to air-burst above water, both without being, and whilst being (the distilled water) subjected to sonication so as to prevent aggregation and changing of form, and then examination under an electron microscope, to see if it is indeed producing an explosively dispersed cloud of colloidal gold.
And to observe the same experiment performed with platinum, since both platinum fulminate (a true fulminate, I.e a platinum salt of fulminic acid) and platina fulmina, which does not, exist. Although both are extremely unstable and explode on the slightest trace of application of shock, friction, heat, impact, the 'fulminating' compounds of the perculiar stoichiometric composition afaik being by far the more unstable.
Ever seen those little twists of paper, that look like a gigantic spermatocyte in shape? that contain little pebbles? that are sold, packaged in little boxes, separated well, by sawdust/fine wood shavings , for kids to throw, that when they hit the floor, are trodden on, or placed between the fingers and the fingers briskly snapped together, explode with a loud crack? those are full of small pebbles, gravel about 1.5-2mm in diameter with a miniscule fine coating of fulminating silver on the surface, a milligram or two at most, insufficient to injure, even directly in the fingers, but still quite enough to make a loud bang.
Mercury fulminate (which contains the fulminate anion) is best known amongst the lot probably, since its used in bullets, shells of various kinds for various firearms as the primer in the percussion cap that is impacted by the firing pin or hammer of the weapon, which sets off the propellant charge in the casing of the round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulminating_gold
