Transport and detection of explosive samples

Abstract

An apparatus for transporting an explosive or volatile material may include a vial configured to contain a sample of explosive dissolved in a solvent, and an airtight container which contains the vial. 0.1 mg of the explosive or volatile material may be dissolved in 0.1 ml of the solvent. The solvent may be an alcohol selected from water, methanol, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, butanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, dimethyl sulfoxide ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, ethylene glycol monomethylether acetate or propylene glycol monomethylether acetate. A method for transporting an explosive may include providing the apparatus, dissolving 0.1 mg of the explosive in the solvent in the vial; sealing the vial in the airtight container; allowing of the explosive in the solvent in the vial to equilibrate with an atmosphere inside the airtight container; opening the airtight container; and measuring an amount of explosive using a Cavity Ring-down Spectrometer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.