The agents of the Tedax NRBQ team of the National Police Picric acid has been involved in several institutes in the Community of Madrid. It is a more powerful and unstable explosive than dynamite, as confirmed by a spokeswoman for the Madrid Police Headquarters.
The operation began after receive alerts about the presence of this chemical compound in chemistry laboratories of educational centers, where it had been stored for decades, although no incidents had been reported.
This acid, also known as trinitrophenol, is a yellow volatile substance whose danger increases over time. It is extremely sensitive to heat, impact and friction, posing a high risk for nearby facilities and people. The 50-gram jars seized were labeled as very pure crystallized picric acid.
The Tedax went to these institutes responding to calls from the educational centers after detect this substance in your chemistry laboratories. Some centers had stored the compound as part of old materials for teaching practices, distributed more than 30 years ago and which had therefore begun to crystallize, which is even more dangerous.
Communication and intervention in Madrid It comes shortly after a similar incident in Galicia in Octoberwhere Civil Guard agents intervened with picric acid in several educational centers. On that occasion, the authorities made a public call to all institutes to check their laboratories and notified their presence through an email enabled for this purpose.
The Ministry of Education will send a communication to all secondary education institutes to check their laboratories and, if they locate this substance, notify the authorities to remove it, regional sources have reported.
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