In Popular Culture
On AMC's Breaking Bad, Walter White throws a piece of fulminated mercury to the ground to cause an explosion at Tuco Salamanca's hangout. The effect demonstrated in the scene, while theoretically plausible, is generally considered to have been exaggerated for dramatic effect.
In Law & Order's Season 7, Episode 6 "Double Blind" the killer uses bullets tipped with fulminated mercury to kill a former school janitor. This scene should not be duplicated as mercury fulminate is a very sensitive explosive and would almost certainly detonate in the firing chamber.
In Burn Notice's Season 4, Episode 13 "Eyes Open" Michael Westen uses decoy Mercury Fulminate in order to distract a bomb man while Sam Axe searches his house.
In the movie Mister Roberts, Jack Lemmon's character Ensign Pulver uses "fulminate of mercury" to create a very large "firecracker."
In the eighth episode of the anime Code Geass, the Japanese Liberation Front uses a Mercury (II) Fulminate cannon as an anti-Knightmare long range weapon.
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