terrorist hit glasgow

[Alex]

Haveing dealt with govement departments and govement run subsiduries, london underground, Inland revenue, Customs and exsize, Essex CC, Health and saftey, planing commities, all without fail have been the most useless bunch of idots to walk the face of the planet needing several months and a huge buget before the simplest of jobs or decisions can be carried out how can the anti terroism branch be any different.

Well when its not there money, I suppose they dont care.

If the private sector tried to run the way the public sector works they would be bust within weeks and then the public sector would have no money either.

Just goes to show that we are being taxed far more than what we really need to be.

 

[Drains]

I may be wrong here... but I reckon these bombs could never work, even with proper detonation.

The reason is that in my experience petrol isn't in the least bit explosive without being mixed with the right amount of air, neither is lpg. Even if you chuck an LPG bottle in a fire, the safety valve/disc, should blow, letting out a jet of gas (which will burn), but with little, if any danger of explosion.

A better solution (not suggesting any potential or budding terrorists should try this, except at home ), would be to let a few cubic metres of oxygen and acetylene loose in the back of a transit and strike a lighter. Now that would be a small, noisy and a bit shrapnelly bomb.

There are loads of ways to make explosive devices, and all non H.E. ones need an oxidiser, or they're rubbish. (with the poss exception of an acetylene bottle...)

 

[AndyP]

The two Glasgow bombers have now been named, they are Singed Inajeep and Mohammed Zonfia. lol

 

[Alex]

I hope you dont get done for racism or religousism in that post, it was quite funny though, they must have had some of that Scottish malt before hand and got punished by Allah for drinking.

Seriously though I think a compressed gas cylinder with sodium chlorate as the oxidiser and a fuel like sugar would give plenty enough heat to build a pressure in the cylinder and create a sizable explosion.

 

[Masked Marauder]

I may be wrong here... but I reckon these bombs could never work, even with proper detonation.

The reason is that in my experience petrol isn't in the least bit explosive without being mixed with the right amount of air, neither is lpg. Even if you chuck an LPG bottle in a fire, the safety valve/disc, should blow, letting out a jet of gas (which will burn), but with little, if any danger of explosion.

A better solution (not suggesting any potential or budding terrorists should try this, except at home ), would be to let a few cubic metres of oxygen and acetylene loose in the back of a transit and strike a lighter. Now that would be a small, noisy and a bit shrapnelly bomb.

There are loads of ways to make explosive devices, and all non H.E. ones need an oxidiser, or they're rubbish. (with the poss exception of an acetylene bottle...)

Is the correct answer.

Indeed the air-fuel mix in one of the London car bombs was so great the fuel was condensing on the windows. The most dangerous thing about that was when the (hero) cop opened the door and let the air in then pulled the phone off the detonator wires.

As for the bottles exploding, one did get hot enough to rupture the safety disk in the Glasgow car, that is what is seen as the hot yellow flame in the middle of the car on the video footage. No explosions though as they never could have.

Too much Hollywood, not enough factual chemistry!