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Old Jul 16, 2013 | 8:22 pm
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FredAnderssen
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Originally Posted by WillCAD
Cool. Link an example.
In this age of Prism (government spying) and the ability for law enforcement to easily track IP addresses of those posting on forums such as these, I wouldn't dare even link an example of creating explosives from liquids.

But I will say, as a chemical engineer myself, that there are certain liquids readily available in any laboratory setting (including university laboratories), that when mixed have a very low activation energy. The result is predictable. This is self evident to anyone here who has ever worked in a lab.*

There is also a certain powder we had at our lab that when mixed with a common liquid found in every laboratory, would produce enough deadly something-or-other to wipe out an entire plane load of passengers.

Sorry to be so oblique. If you wish to continue to believe that it isn't possible, rest assured that I won't try to correct you from this point on.

*edited to add: I re-read your earlier post and noticed that you said something to the effect that it couldn't be done in a non-laboratory setting. This is false. Let me just say that a small bucket of ice (easily found on an airplane), will certainly grant you the laboratory-like conditions necessary for my first example.

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