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To: Right Wing Professor

Is it as nasty as ammonium iodide?


43 posted on 11/19/2005 7:36:35 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
I think you mean 'nitrogen triiodide'. That's actually pretty harmless; it mostly crackles, and the biggest danger is getting an iodine burn from it. TATP is just stable enough to use as a terrorist explosive, but unstable enough only a suicide bomber would risk it. And you can make pounds of it from stuff you can buy in a hardware store. Much of the lore about it is crap, BTW, including about half of what's on the Wikipedia page.

We handle it in 200 mg quantities, tops.

44 posted on 11/19/2005 8:10:53 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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