An acetone peroxide compound named TATP -- referred ... which can detonate spontaneously or with only slight friction. The explosion is pound for pound 80 percent more powerful than that of ...

In fact, the day of the explosion, the boy told his father ... He specifically warned his son not to manufacture acetone peroxide because it is very unstable, he told police.

It takes barely a nudge for this energy to be released in a violent explosion. Examples of chemicals that contain a high amount of nitrogen and oxygen and a low amount of carbon. They are all ...

Terrorists could also simply carry aboard a plane the two chemicals used to make TATP -- acetone and hydrogen peroxide, highly concentrated versions of which are necessary to create an explosion.

Parts Manchester University have been evacuated over concerns due to explosion fears after a ... about how the highly dangerous chemical, acetone peroxide, had become ‘crystalised’, making ...

Acetone peroxide, a white powder ... Meanwhile, firefighters were called to the University of Liverpool following the explosion which injured one post graduate student in the science lab.

Investigators with the Layton Fire Department said the vapors from the acetone the couple used to stain their concrete basement made contact with their furnace, most likely causing the explosion.