RDX

(Their favorite is a substance called RDX, which was used in this week's subway bombings.)

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The devices - believed to have been made with the powerful explosive, hexogen, which is more commonly known as RDX - were filled with chipped iron rods and screws for shrapnel.

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(Their favorite is a substance called RDX, which was used in this week's subway bombings.)

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Their finding was positive: traces of an explosive called RDX, or Hexagen in Russian, were present in the sacks of white powder.

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Acura RDX $37,165    acura.com With a hyperactive turbocharged four-cylinder engine, the RDX is a crossover for boy-racer types who've chopped off their mohawks and outgrown their souped-up Civics.

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It's an explosive that essentially combines an explosive material called RDX with a-- a plasticizer, or -- or plastic binding agent that holds it together.

CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

COOPER: Investigators in India have found timers hidden in pencils in some of the sites of yesterday's deadly bombings in Mumbai -- the three timers found so far believed to have detonated bombs made of RDX, which is a powerful military explosive.

CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006 2006

It's using RDX, which is a military plastic style of explosive, can be made, this belt, for anywhere, we are told, between $30 and $250.

CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2005 2005

But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing.

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The RDX is a removable 2. 5-inch hard drive in a shockproof case.

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