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Forensic Science Info on Bombs – Evaluating a Bomb Scene

Friday, June 29, 2007 marked another day in London's history in which a terror scare rocked the people of this city. Fortunately, nobody was hurt unlike the last bombing that struck a London public transport system nearly two years ago next week. Two car bombs were discovered and quickly defused by a Scotland Yard bomb squad. Now the hunt goes on to find the perpetrators who could have caused such mass destruction of innocent lives.If these car bombs did explode, how do forensic criminal investi...

Knowledge of Chemistry of Explosives – A Magic of Safety

Both Glucose and Explosives liberate energy but rate of liberation is slower with glucose but instantaneous with explosives. Another differentiation is that the glucose contains C carbon, H hydrogen and O oxygen atoms in molecule but the explosive necessarily contains N nitrogen atoms.The C6H122O6 is a glucose molecule but CH2ONO2CHONO2CH2ONO2 is Nitroglycerine (NG) which explodes to form a mixture of steam, nitrogen CO2, and O2 at 30000C. So a rate of Chemical Transformation from one form to an...

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