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Nov 6, 2019, 3:07 pm

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Are you speaking of glycerin, which probably causes the most false alarms?

I wasn't specifically talking about any chemical - without the manual and/or calibration for it there's no way to know what it looks for and how.

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Nov 6, 2019, 5:20 pm

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Are you speaking of glycerin, which probably causes the most false alarms?

Or nitrates?

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