Originally Posted by
eyecue
Spiff my man! There are several commercially available binary explosives on the market that can be mixed together without any environmental controls. Plus I can think of two that are home made that you can do that with.
I know virtually nothing about chemistry, so I'm not going to be able to help in the chemistry argument, but assuming that eyecue is correct, what's to stop someone from putting Chemical A in a glass vial in their left pocket and Chemical B in a glass vial in their right pocket and making explosion soup on the plane? Seems to me that metal detectors don't do much about detecting explosives.
As for the fact that the OP is at my home airport, I am that much more scared. Hope he (she?) doesn't work at Terminal B.
Mike