Researchers Discover New Explosives.

The article reports that the researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered polymorphic crystalline structures of triacetone-triperoxide (TATP), the easy-to-make but difficult to detect explosive used by terrorists worldwide. Professor Ehud Keinan of the Technion Faculty of Chemistry and his colleagues have found that the explosive can form at least six different types of crystals, depending on the conditions during its synthesis and crystallization.