The explosives we are dealing with

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Astrolite explosives, frequently and not too precisely called the world's most powerful non-nuclear explosive, were discovered in the 1960's. Astrolite explosives are formed when ammonium nitrate is mixed with anhydrous hydrazine. This produces a clear liquid explosive called Astrolite G. When aluminum powder (100 mesh or finer) is added to the Hydrazinium Nitrate slurry, it forms Astrolite A-1-5. Astrolite G is a clear liquid explosive that produces a very high detonation velocity, almost twice as powerful as TNT.

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The scary thing is that there are enough cleaning agents and chemicals within the gates of an airport that someone with knowledge and skills could put something together in a short amount of time and take on a plane. It's not that difficult to make something and then hand to or slip on a passenger boarding a plane.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
The scary thing is that there are enough cleaning agents and chemicals within the gates of an airport that someone with knowledge and skills could put something together in a short amount of time and take on a plane. It's not that difficult to make something and then hand to or slip on a passenger boarding a plane.
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Trust me. If the FBI doesn't know that already, then we're completely doomed. Talk to any airport employee and they can come up with at least a dozen lapses in security or ways to get around the system. My guess is that the agencies are too busy huddling in offices trying to figure out what could happen rather than being out in the field checking scenarios that are actually probable.
 
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The Strategy Page has a good round-up:

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20060811.aspx

Why Liquid Explosives Aren't

August 11, 2006: Liquid explosives are back in the news, after British counter-terrorism forces arrested 21 local Moslems on August 10th, for participation in a plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto airliners and set them off once aloft. This has long been feared as a possible terrorist tactic. The recent scare came about because there appeared to be a large terrorist organization supplying the explosives, detonators, and suicide bombers.

Liquid explosives have been around for a long time. But these explosives share two bad traits. They are either very unstable (like nitroglycerin), or subject to deterioration as the different elements suspended in the liquid settle, and become less explosive. Overall, liquid explosives aren't very explosive compared to more solid one. Another problem with liquid explosives is that their components are usually noxious, if not poisonous. Nitric Acid, for example, is nasty stuff, but can be added to more benign substances to produce fairly stable explosives, like Nitromethane.

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