Litmus Test

Credit: Kenneth Suslick
Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) has become a popular explosive for terrorists making portable devices such as shoe bombs because it is powerful and hard to detect by conventional means—it lacks fluorescence, UV light absorption and facile ionization. Screening devices are large, expensive and require...

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