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To: RexBeach
Hydrogen peroxide? Hell, I use that to clean my teeth.

Illiterate/ignorant journalist. The guy was buying hydrogen peroxide and acetone (nail polish remover) from beauty supply shops. Those are part of the reagents required to make PETN. A favorite terrorist explosive.

25 posted on 09/25/2009 11:00:35 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Sorry bud, but I think you have the wrong explosive, PETN’s preparation involves the nitration of pentaerythritol with a mixture of concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid.

TATP, Acetone peroxide (triacetone triperoxide, peroxyacetone, TATP, TCAP) “Acetone peroxide” most commonly refers to the cyclic trimer TCAP (tri-cyclic acetone peroxide, or tri-cyclo, C9H18O6) obtained by a reaction between hydrogen peroxide and acetone in an acid-catalyzed nucleophilic addition


29 posted on 09/25/2009 11:05:08 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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