I mean, combine that with my subversive political leanings, experience working with nuclear waste, and firearms collection (which, of course, will remain in the U.S.), and I'm a walking PATRIOT Act target!
Sorry for the silly comment.
As for the chemistry, here's triacetone triperoxide (click to enlarge the image):
See the oxygen-oxygen (O-O) bonds?
That's the "peroxide" part of the molecule (hydrogen peroxide is H-O-O-H), which is what makes it an explosive.
Nasty.
I got a passing grade though, more likely to prevent me from spending any additional time in the lab.
Thanks Page for elaboration on the chemical formula. Apparently well known by terror groups and the anti-terror units in Israel, UK and western world. Who mixed the ingredients? From general available knowledge of Triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, the investigation could NOT point a finger towards Al Qaida!
"Although made with easily obtainable ingredients, the explosive is also very unstable and will explode from contact with a cigarette or an electrical discharge. Keinan noted that Palestinian terrorists have been known to make the explosive in their own apartment buildings."
BREAKING NEWS - ARREST IN EGYPT OF MISSING CHEMISTRY TEACHER
PS I was in Amsterdam yesterday at my friend's place: Brasserie De Joffers. Best American hamburger in town - code word for conversation: City of Creve Coeur Missouri.
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As for explosives, I would expect that the al Qaaqa explosives are being used in Iraq and possibly elsewhere in the world. There was enough missing to supply bombers for decades.
And I'll remember your friend's place, as well as the code word!
No one else has the chemical formula.
At last we have the London link to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi! Now we can focus the investigation on AQ.
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