Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening

Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening

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Today’s solution is a simple way to improve the sensitivity of the test often used to detect traces of explosives on the hands, carry-ons and other possessions of passengers at airport security screening stations. A group of scientists reported their inno
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vor 3 Monaten
Today’s solution is a simple way to improve the sensitivity of the
test often used to detect traces of explosives on the hands,
carry-ons and other possessions of passengers at airport security
screening stations. A group of scientists reported their innovation
in ACS’ The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
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