[/url]Tang, peroxide and a disposable camera — items you may very well have in your home — can be a deadly mix.
Far-fetched as it sounds, bombs made from hydrogen peroxide and the breakfast powder drink Tang could have taken down seven planes bound for the U.S. and Canada — using flash cameras to trigger the explosions.
A British court saw video evidence this week of the "liquid explosives plot," an alleged terrorist cabal British police say they thwarted in August 2006. The suspects allegedly had planned to use common household chemicals to mix bombs while aboard jets flying over the Atlantic.
Tang? or the airplane liguids ban explained
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Tang? or the airplane liguids ban explained
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356491,00.html
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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It's the peroxide that led to the liquids ban, and the "difficult" ingredient in this particular bomb. You can't just go buy 2% peroxide from your local pharmacy -- it's got to be very high potency, around 30% or greater, to be a good enough reducing agent to make the Tang explosive. And since hydrogen peroxide is so unstable, especially when exposed to light, that's why they were particularly suspicious of liquids in containers that wouldn't be exposed to light, or were opaque in the first place.
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