[LibertyRocks]

Sounds like a development of this sort would make it awfully hard for investigators to prove an explosive substance existed in items found and then detonated by bomb squads, as well as hard for them to trace the source. This is not good...

[LibertyRocks]

Ping for an awful "invention"...

Reminds me of the recent ECU bomb threat where they "detonated 6 copper pipes" but afterwards found no trace of explosives... That could've been bad reporting of course, but this article makes one think.

[Southack]

It's nonsense. The acetone (triacetone) alone leaves an enormous residue trail.

And smell. You know it by its more common name: nail polish remover.

[indcons]

Ping....not connected to the OU bombing but interesting nevertheless.

[Northern Alliance]

I don't see where this is a big deal. The most common bomb is composed of fertilizer and diesel fuel - mostly untraceable. Even if it was traced, how much benefit is that?

I can't recall a major Islamofascist bombing where identifying the bomber was all that difficult. In the first Bali bombing, the guy used his brother in law's truck or something, that had his license plate or the registration number was on the frame.

[TN4Liberty]

I'm no expert, but even in an explosion I would doubt that the reaction would consume 100 percent of every material. Even the inability to measure perfectly would come into play.

Time will tell I guess.

[R. Scott]

Nor will he ever give up his chewing tobacco and spittoon, according to an insider …

The explosive’s lack of trace would in itself be a fingerprint. Combined with the remains of the packaging, detonator and actuator there isn’t much difference between working this type of scene and one where C4 was used.

[ovrtaxt]

A bomb that leaves no trace- except for all the blood and body parts, and screaming people, and media apologists, and...

[Paul_Denton]

Well if they know it was used by suicide bombers in Israel, then I do not know how it is untracable.

[rellimpank]

---rot---as one who has participated in the detonation of some twenty million pounds of explosives, I know not to believe anything you read in the media about explosives--

---same almost holds true for firearms---

[edpc]

.......hydrogen peroxide and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was mixed with citric acid...

Boom! You're dead.

[FDNYRHEROES]

They find the heads of the suicide bombers, but the explosives leaves no trace. Man, ain't technology great?

[antaresequity]

traces that were already in the atmosphere: carbon monoxide and water.

A Green Bomb...

Earth Liberation Front-Animal Liberation Front are rejoicing and taking notes...

[laz]

No trace? This will provide investigators with yet another excuse to claim no links to terrorism whenever something explodes. Who knows, maybe Hinrichs just self-combusted.

[Rockpile]

Why does any of this even matter? These were the actions of despondent Indonesian college students who were picked on as "yutes" and felt so down that they decided to end it all but unfortuneately mistook restaurants for the outsides of soccer stadiums.