speaking professionally, to mix commonly available ingredients into a bomb. It's called ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate, i.e. common fertilizer, and Fuel Oil). The catch is that it will NOT be something that's particularly impressive in quantities that one person could carry without being obvious.
As capplor points out, there are some explosives you can make from common ingredients -- it's just that the one that the media has latched onto isn't one of them.
If there really is peroxide in the mix, I'd guess that the solid ingredient is a powdered fuel of some sort. Otherwise, I would have expected something like ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
exactly. Though according to Wikipedia (not always a reliable source) the one used in Oklahoma City was ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene, which roughly doubles the yield.
Ethyl nitrate is another possibility. And it's apt to be just as tricky to make in practice.
BTW, my thought from the start about the ban was that for anything in a *beverage* container, making the person take a swig is all the testing you really need.
Actually, it's quite easy,
Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:18 (UTC)Re: Actually, it's quite easy,
Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:53 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:53 (UTC)If there really is peroxide in the mix, I'd guess that the solid ingredient is a powdered fuel of some sort. Otherwise, I would have expected something like ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
The explosive of choice, with truck bombs, I believe
Date: 12 Aug 2006 06:23 (UTC)Re: The explosive of choice, with truck bombs, I believe
Date: 12 Aug 2006 15:09 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Aug 2006 07:10 (UTC)BTW, my thought from the start about the ban was that for anything in a *beverage* container, making the person take a swig is all the testing you really need.
no subject
Date: 12 Aug 2006 15:09 (UTC)