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What does PETN mean?

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The code was cracked hours before the two packages containing explosive liquid explosive PETN were intercepted in the United Kingdom and Dubai.
That bomb contained just 80g of PETN, while shoebomber Richard Reid, who failed to blow up a flight to Miami in December 2001, had a 100g charge.
Fortunately for the crew and passengers, the liquid didn't make enough contact with PETN to create an explosion.
The explosive material PETN, or pentaerythritol trinitrate, was used.
All of the specimens from southern El Petn have yellow or yellowish white flanks and ventrolateral surfaces.
A contribution to a knowledge of the herpetology of a portion of the savanna region of central Petn, Guatemala.

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