Thanks for the excellent article! ^
Now, if only the nervous Nellies out there would give it a read and understand why some of us are less worried about TATP being made in the lav than they are...
Here's a point I have made several times recently:
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Watch the reaction temperature carefully. The mixture will heat, and if it gets too hot, you'll end up with a weak explosive. In fact, if it gets really hot, you'll get a premature explosion possibly sufficient to kill you, but probably no one else.
I also loved this bit: asking an expert who has experience in TATP what would happen:
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We asked University of Rhode Island Chemistry Professor Jimmie C. Oxley, who has actual, practical experience with TATP, if this is a reasonable assumption, and she tolds us that merely dumping the precursors together would create "a violent reaction," but not a detonation.