FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Investigation into TSA non-dipping test strips
Old Jul 9, 2012, 3:11 pm
  #10  
BubbaLoop
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,444
Originally Posted by Ysitincoach
I don't think it's as magical as logic would make us believe. They've done dry vapor tests since the 60s when dealing with chemicals, acids, all the nasty stuff that would explode.
A chemical solution containing explosives volatile enough to reach detectable levels on a test strip would be very volatile and unstable indeed (and certainly not peroxides, which seem to be the primary fear of the TSA and are not even remotely volatile enough to be detected by test strips in the air above). Besides, developing test strips with water is beyond believability. It suggests to me these are original dipsticks that are being used in an alternate (and useless) fashion. But I may be wrong, and the idea of this thread is to try to find out.

By the way, as discussed, here, I detect peroxides for a living.
BubbaLoop is offline