NIST, ASTM Land a One-Two Punch to Fight Explosives Terrorism (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST, ASTM Land a One-Two Punch to Fight Explosives Terrorism

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SRM 2906 includes four ampoules of each of the three explosives and a blank along with a dropper bottle for each. NIST researchers formulated the concentrations of these solutions to be near but above the detection limit of commercial swipe-type detectors, which are commonly based on ion mobility spectrometry.

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