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Old Feb 13, 2018, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by YadiMolina
Can anyone speak to the quantitative abilities of these screening devices? Can they detect "magnitudes" of anything? Or is it just detected / not detected? Can they differentiate between a trace detection, or a pure explosive material? (I'm probably answering my own question here.)
I think having Trace in the name is a giveaway although they certainly aren't very good at the Explosive part of the task.
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