Picatinny Liquid Explosive

Picatinny Liquid Explosive , ( PLX ), is a liquid explosive that is composed of 95% nitromethane and 5% ethylenediamine . The detonation speed is 6000–7000 m / s and thus does not reach that of PETN and Hexogen .

The explosives were developed in the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey during World War II . It should be used for mine clearance . It is believed that PLX as an explosive in 1987 at the assassination of the flight 858 of Korean Air was used. According to a North Korean agent , the PLX is said to have been smuggled on board in a whiskey bottle .

Despite its high explosiveness, PLX is not used in the military or in the civil sector because of its corrosive effect and low chemical stability .

Web links

• Liquid explosives easy to make, hard to detect

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Köhler, Rudolf Meyer: Explosivstoffe: Ninth, revised and expanded edition . John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 3-527-62583-6 , pp. 225 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ^ Paul Wilkinson: Technology and Terrorism , Verlag Routledge, 2012, ISBN 9781136298318 , p. 36 [1]
3. ^ Rudolf Meyer, Josef Köhler, Axel Homburg: Explosives , Edition 5, Verlag John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 9783527616343 , p. 204, [2]