[Boot Hill]

There is something you may have missed in that quote you posted. Let me re-post it with emphasis.

"There is nothing on this thread or any other thread (covering the subject of boric acid) that would indicate even one single practical use for it by terrorists."

First off, your chemical formula and example uses sodium borohydride, but that is NOT boric acid. The stolen truck carried boric acid.

Second, even if you managed to dredge up a truck load of sodium borohydride, just where the hell do you expect to come up with a tanker full of the highly toxic gas, boron triflouride, that your formula calls for?

Third, the only terrorist value to the resulting diborane gas is that it is highly combustible. You know like common, ordinary, everyday natural gas and propane that can be gotten anywhere, anytime and with very little cost or trouble. Moreover, your diborane spontaneously combusts with air, which is a highly undesirable characteristic when making a bomb or pyro compound, because it can not be easily controlled and tends to blow up in your face.

Fourth, there are literally hundreds of easier to use compounds, found in ordinary life and business, that are far more useful to terrorists (than what you propose), so that a terrorist does not need to go running around the country side stealing trucks full of sodium borohydride and tankers full of boron triflouride (should they ever find any).

Boric acid is of no practical use to terrorists.

--Boot Hill

[Movemout]

Like I said in my previous post, Boric Acid is used primarily to create other boron compounds. If I were doing mischief I wouldn't bother with it. But your assertion that it has no practical uses is bald on the surface. These idiots can't figure out that they shouldn't pump unleaded into a diesel engine. However, it is possible that they are just drivers and wouldn't know squat about boric acid anyway. There is also no evidence that boric acid is the payload in the trailer. I was merely pointing out that there are boron compounds that can be easily produced that are dangerous at some level. Don't be offended. These nincompoops are likely to be intercepted no matter what they have in the trailer.

G'night. I'm signing off.