"bomb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Investigators said yesterday that they still had not recovered any wreckage that had clearly tested positive for bomb residue.
- A law enforcement official said last night that F.B.I. agents wanted to test each piece of baggage retrieved from the area for bomb residue.
- Investigators have closely scrutinized the burned portions of the right wing and have tested it for bomb residue.
- Other investigators, meanwhile, are subjecting some pieces of the wreckage to sophisticated tests, in a search for bomb residue.
- There was even despair on the first, worst days when the highly expensive and sophisticated Egis bomb detection machines sat idle because the available wreckage was so unlikely a source of bomb residue.
- The machine that detects preliminary traces of bomb residue had its first positive hit - for PETN, a component of plastic explosives.
- The 1.5 billion bags checked each year by passengers will be put through these machines, or screened by a different system for traces of bomb residue.
- The bomb residue was lousy with tritium.
- And even after more than 2,500 dives, the divers have not yet found material with bomb residue.
- Complicating the search for bomb residue is the simple fact that bombs deployed by terrorists in recent years have contained only small amounts of explosives.
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