News tagged with peroxide based explosives
New form of destructive terrorist material unlikely, chemists report (w/Video)
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Concerns that terrorists could produce a new and particularly dangerous form of the explosive responsible for airport security screening of passengers’ shoes and restrictions on liquids in ...
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UCSD Scientists Develop Sensor for Homemade Bombs
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most ...
New analytical tool developed for liquid explosives detection
Oct 13, 2006 |
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The thwarted 2006 London airline bomb plot not only heightened summer travel fears and created new passenger screening inconveniences, but also greatly underscored the urgent need for improved national security measures. ...
Super-sensitive spray-on explosive detector makes great television
May 23, 2008 |
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US scientists have designed a new spray-on explosive detector sensitive enough to detect just a billionth of a gram of explosive. After treatment the explosive glows blue under UV light, making it perfect for use in the field ...
New NIST trace explosives standard slated for homeland security duty
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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Security personnel need to be able to find explosive materials and persons who have been in contact with them. To aid such searches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, with support from the ...
'Powerhouses' from living cells power new explosives detector
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Researchers in Missouri have borrowed the technology that living cells use to produce energy to develop a tiny, self-powered sensor for rapid detection of hidden explosives. The experimental sensor, about the size of a postage ...
New method for detecting explosives
Mar 13, 2009 |
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A group of researchers in Tennessee and Denmark has discovered a way to sensitively detect explosives based on the physical properties of their vapors. Their technology, which is currently being developed into prototype devices ...
Glowing films reveal traces of explosives
May 23, 2008 |
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New spray-on films developed by UC San Diego chemists will be the basis of portable devices that can quickly reveal trace amounts of nitrogen-based explosives.
H. peroxide sensor could aid security
Aug 23, 2006 |
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A new family of molecules used to detect hydrogen peroxide and other reactive chemicals in living cells could be a useful addition to anti-terrorist arsenals, says the University of California, Berkeley, chemist who developed ...
New fluorescent sensing material created
May 29, 2007 |
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U.S. and Chinese scientists have created a type of fluorescent sensing material that could lead to rapid detection of explosives in security screening.
Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer
Jan 16, 2008 |
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By mixing nanomaterials that act as fuel and oxidizer, researchers have created a combustible nano explosive that can generate shock waves with Mach numbers up to 3.
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