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Spectroscopy Gauges Blast Potential

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Stephanie A. Weiss

ATLANTA -- When FBI agents rush into the hideouts of terrorist groups, they often find jars of chemicals that could be explosive. Some explosives are so dangerous that they would be downright deadly under even the gentlest of jostling, so carrying them to a lab for analysis is out of the question.Kevin McNesby of the US Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground reported at Pittcon '97 that Raman spectroscopy can accurately assess an unknown material's explosive potential. The benefit of the technique is that agents could carry portable instruments and use a fiber probe to investigate their...Read full article

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