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23 posted on 08/12/2006 12:58:02 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)

I'm no expert, though I have had a lot of chemistry training:

As well as I can determine, if you use "hair-dying" grade H2O2, the TATP may have to be dried before being useful because that grade is 6% water. However, if you use food-grade (30%), the acetone-H2O2 solution which also has TATP in it is itself quite unstable and might be able to be detonated without drying. I'm not certain-I haven't tried it. It seems certain that using even more pure H2O2 such as the very dangerous 70+% used in rocketry would require nothing more than mixing and setting it off.

60 posted on 08/12/2006 8:40:24 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))