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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 11:28 pm
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QUERY
 
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Originally Posted by BubbaLoop
"Since you seem to be in the know, can you tell us what chemical property these non-dipping test strips are designed to detect? I ask because, knowing the basic chemistry of hydrogen peroxide (which seems to be what they are all worried about), I donīt see how it could be reliably detected with a non-dipping strip."
Wish I could tell you, but I don't know. All I can report is what I have seen. I spent an hour googling for info one time but was unable to find any info regarding these. In this same thread, both Mr. Gel-pack and AngryMiller also had no success finding info on them. In another thread, I had asked TSORon about these and what liquid explosives they are designed to detect but he stated he could not divulge any info on them. The container for these that I saw was unmarked. If I look up any other equipment that TSA uses, there is plenty of open source info on these. However, to date, I have not found any open source info on the non-dipping test strips.
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