Re: Liquid Explosives used aboard airliners


donald haarmann wrote:
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The explosion removed the windows,
the door and most of the chimney.

It was the sort of thing you expected in
the Street of Alchemists. The neighbours
preferred explosions, which were at least
identifiable and soon over. They were better
than the smells, which crept up on you.
Terry Pratchett


Slightly OT, but I would like to display my qualifications for living
on the Street of Alchemists, heheh. Have left my signature in
potassium permanganate on the ceiling of my undergraduate chemistry
lab. Distillation apparatus exploded quite thoroughly, and fortunately
mostly upward hitting the ceiling, and not the people. There remains a
beautiful "Deep Purple" Rorschach ink blot on the ceiling to this day
(happened in 1982). I should have gone up there and signed it!! We
named it "The Purple Haze". 8-P


---tension

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