this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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What is this thing?
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As far as I know it's common pratice to include chemical markers in explosives unique to the factory, so if the explosive get stolen/used in an unauthorized manner the investigators can trace back were they were trafugated.
Maybe they also include high visibility pieces of plastic as a visual markers. If so on them there would be printed some identifying information like lot number, manufacturing date and factory address.
Yeah I think it came out after the fact those were some kind of neon plastic casing