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- noun chemistry Any compound containing three
peroxide groups
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Examples
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He used triacetone triperoxide, which is susceptible to heat, shock and friction, as is nitroglycerin.
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In a plea agreement, Jakubec acknowledged making and storing explosives and weapons at his ranch-style home in Escondido, including nine detonators, 13 grenade hulls and large quantities of the highly unstable Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMDT, which can explode by someone stepping on it.
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In a plea agreement, Jakubec acknowledged making and storing explosives and weapons at his ranch-style home in Escondido, including nine detonators, 13 grenade hulls and large quantities of the highly unstable Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMDT, which can explode by someone stepping on it.
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Police experts with bomb-sniffing dogs were dispatched to search the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant and examine the substance, believed to be triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which can be extremely dangerous even in tiny amounts.
Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Police experts with bomb-sniffing dogs were dispatched to search the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant and examine the substance, believed to be triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which can be extremely dangerous even in tiny amounts.
What's this story alluding to? Not a sheep 2008
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The indictment says that Abdulmutallab carried a substance called triacetone triperoxide, also known as TATP.
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And what they're talking specifically about are TATP and HMTD, which is triacetone triperoxide and hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, OK?
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MESERVE: (voice-over): The explosive that ripped apart London transit cars in 2005, killing 52 people, was TATP, triacetone triperoxide.
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Memory sticks found in Mr. Sarwar's home contained information about detonating improvised explosive devices on aircraft, while in woods nearby police found a partially buried suitcase containing materials necessary to manufacture hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, and several dozen liters of hydrogen peroxide.
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So we're talking about basically two types of explosives, triacetone triperoxide, TATP, and HMTP, hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.
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