To: Phsstpok
I think you mean mercury fulminate.
23 posted on
09/29/2003 6:32:24 PM PDT by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: SVTCobra03
I think you mean mercury fulminate. Probably. Hey, I'm impressed that I remembered the mercury part. I saw the movie in the theater when it was new - 30 years ago!!!!! 7;^>
25 posted on
09/29/2003 7:08:48 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
(often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: SVTCobra03
Wouldn't the shock of firing detonate the fulminate in the barrel? Seems like with the liquid metal you'd get a fragmentation (squirting) effect while cutting down some of the energy previously wasted ripping apart the round.
26 posted on
09/29/2003 7:29:45 PM PDT by
Axenolith
(<insert rapier witticism here>)
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