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To: Moominoid who wrote (66658)	7/28/2005 4:20:32 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Regarding the London explosives. If you've ever taken chemistry you'll recall how difficult it is to faithfully reproduce many compounds, especially when the finished product is a solid. A non-profit, where I was a Board Member, funded the creation of a number of biochemical compounds. Even with very skilled chemists we often ended up with "soup" than the compound we wanted because the temperature or other minor variable was not exactly right. Being successful once is not a good predictor of future success. The advantage of the explosive used, triacetone peroxide, is that it can be made from easily obtainable chemicals and it is not detected by explosive sniffers on a chip because it is not nitrogen based. Some have said that triacetone peroxide degrades over time. I don't know to what extent this is true, but often this type of degradation is accelerated by exposure to moisture or other compounds. .

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