Doesn't the Bombadier beetle make peroxide (dunno what percentage)?
Wonder if we could farm and milk them? ;-)
Bioengineering them to not make the catalyst may not be that hard...
Adrian Tymes wrote:
Jake Anderson wrote:
just think about it a person could be arrested for carrying around
80kg of
this dihydrogen monoxide concealed on/in their person then to go from a
felony unlicensed explosives charge to a full blown terrorism charge
when
they are discovered in position of a car battery for the purposes of
processing this material into a high order explosive.
don't forget also that the human body can produce methane (some more
than
others) which can be used as a fuel air explosive so from now I say that
anybody found to produce this substance wilfully and without regard
for the
safety of others be arrested and punished!
If you really want to bioengineer a high-grade explosives production
organ, that can be done. The problem would be getting it through the
bomb scanners: these organs can rarely just be turned on and off at
will, so they'll probably have enough traces of the chemicals to trip
the sensors (unless buried in the body with care to seal the product
against getting in the blood or respiratory tracts). Even the process
to produce hydrogen peroxide, as I understand it, relies on an organic
catalyst...though, if done in a normal body, the peroxide would probably
just react with the rest of the body before it could be extracted, thus
making this approach infeasable.
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