[Gllug] Even more increased airport security announced.

[John Winters]

Alain Williams wrote:
> I remember hearing that some explosives were made using weedkiller & sugar,
> the active bit in weedkiller being sodium chlorate, so I decided to have
> a go. Didn't work, perhaps fortunately, 'cos by that time my chemistry teacher
> had not explained the difference between 'chlorate' and 'chloride' :-)

As a teenager, I spent a couple of summer days with a friend trying to 
make explosive that way.  We never did manage a proper explosion, but it 
burnt very well.

John
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