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Menace in a bottle
10-02-2007 · EurekAlert!After the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airlines with liquid explosives was uncovered in London in August 2006, there has been pressure on the airline industry, and Homeland Security, to find new ways to not only detect liquids in baggage and on airline passengers, but also to figure out what they are. Now, the DHS Science & Technology Directorate is teaming with scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to find a possible solution.
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