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Re:Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Bel... by isoprophlex on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:00PM (#16898221)
Also who needs a gazillion liters of isopropanol when a kilogram of sarin (which takes at most ~10L of isopropanol to make) is all you need to kill... well, everybody you would want to kill?
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Re:Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Bel... by kortex on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:39PM (#16898461)
Isopropanol is hardly the limiting reagent in this route, nor is it hard to produce by myriad ways.

Hell, even thionyl chloride (still tons of legit uses) is more of a red flag than IPrOH.

Something is definitely a bit goofy about this blog. Not saying attacks didn't happen, it's just that, from a chemical production point of view, iPrOH is a really odd choice to look at.

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