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- noun inorganic chemistry Any compound containing four
nitrate groups
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Examples
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How'd that loser manage to board a plane in Lagos packing Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), then glide on through to a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines flight?
Boing Boing 2009
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The incident seemed almost over – but then officials in Dubai told their British counterparts that a suspicious computer printer cartridge had been found to contain the lethal explosive PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate.
Bombs Found On U.S.-Bound Flights Tied To Al Qaeda, More Could Be Sent, White House Adviser Says AP 2010
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The incident seemed almost over – but then officials in Dubai told their British counterparts that a suspicious computer printer cartridge had been found to contain the lethal explosive PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate.
Bombs Found On U.S.-Bound Flights Tied To Al Qaeda, More Could Be Sent, White House Adviser Says AP 2010
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He also admitted having significant amounts of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, the explosive used in the 2001 airliner shoe-bombing attempt.
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All three bombs contained a high explosive known as PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, which was also used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid when he tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, Yemen Bombmaker, Key Suspect In Terror Plot AP 2010
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All three bombs contained a high explosive known as PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, which was also used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid when he tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, Yemen Bombmaker, Key Suspect In Terror Plot AP 2010
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Both contained the high explosive PETN pentaerythritol tetranitrate.
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The incident seemed almost over – but then officials in Dubai told their British counterparts that a suspicious computer printer cartridge had been found to contain the lethal explosive PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate.
Bombs Found On U.S.-Bound Flights Tied To Al Qaeda, More Could Be Sent, White House Adviser Says AP 2010
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He also admitted having significant amounts of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, the explosive used in the 2001 airliner shoe-bombing attempt.
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Al-Qaeda has shown that it knows how to avoid detection by using an explosive device that contains little or no metal, such as PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, used by Abdulmutallab and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2001. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Former Homeland Security Chief Argues for Whole-body Imaging 2010
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