Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Well, that's fine, except medical nitro pills and patches are NOT explosive, in any quantities. I could take 50 pounds of them aboard a plane, pound them to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle, and they WOULD NOT EXPLODE. The other chemicals mixed with with the nitro in pills and patches chemically neutralizes the explosive component, rendering it completely harmless.
Well, for the sake of exactness, any powder
will explode if at the right mix in the air when a spark is applied.
Coal, flour, nitro pills, chalk, sugar, plastic, wood, cardboard, hops, corn stalks, whey, cotton, wool. Anything. You name it, if it has carbon in it and it is powdered enough and floating free in the air at the right density when you apply a spark then you can make it explode.
Making
enough of something in powder form and then getting it to explode on a plane such that it could cause any harm to anything or anyone, however, is so ridiculous that it's simply not going to happen.
As everyone except TSA seems to understand, nitro pills are zero risk to aviation.