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(Nick Cooper) wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:07 +0100 (BST), (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote: In article , (David Boothroyd) wrote: If the reports today (that the explosive was mostly Acetone Peroxide) are correct, then it would be unlikely given the damage to the train that any serious damage was done to the tunnel. Since the rest of us aren't the explosive experts that you are, David, perhaps you can explain that remark? I suspect he means what I've already thought, i.e. that the damage to the heavier parts of the subsurface trains is fairly limited, menaing that the blast furthur out would have been sufficient to significantly damage the tunnel. It's difficult to make a really large bomb with Acetone peroxide because it is so unstable. Having a professional chemist may mean that the reaction product has been stabilised by mixing with other similar but less friction-sensitive chemicals, but it's still not a compound to trust. -- http://www.election.demon.co.uk "We can also agree that Saddam Hussein most certainly has chemical and biolog- ical weapons and is working towards a nuclear capability. The dossier contains confirmation of information that we either knew or most certainly should have been willing to assume." - Menzies Campbell, 24th September 2002. |
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