Sentence examples for detect plastic from inspiring English sources

Neither can detect plastic explosives.

They can detect plastic explosives, an explosive called pentrite, black powder, dynamite and detonating cord, he said, and are retrained if any new danger is found.

Such systems not only detect plastic bombs but, when applied to passengers or crew members, can locate hazards like a plastic knife taped to a traveler's body.

The company said its equipment could detect plastic explosives, which may have been used by an American Airlines passenger suspected of trying to blow up a plane flying from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22.

Walk-through metal detectors cannot detect plastic explosive, and shoes do not go through the hand luggage X-ray, which in any case might not have discovered anything that looked suspicious.

To do baggage screening properly, thousands of X-ray mandine-scannerscanners designed to detect plastic explosives will have to be purchased for installation at all American airports; some have some of this equipment, but not all do.

This equipment in fact can detect plastics, and we know plastic knives were something smuggled on board.

The measures taken to scrutinize such a person, however, would not have detected plastic explosives.

David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, would not comment on Contador's case, but said Friday that there is a valid test for detecting plastic in the blood.

The metal detectors in place at airport checkpoints for screening passengers are useless in detecting plastic explosives like the powerful military-grade compound called C-4 that the suspect, Richard Colvin Reid, is believed to have had in his sneakers, aviation experts said.

The use of the low-energy (60 keV) 241Am source makes it possible to design a light-weight hand-held device that can augment other methods of detecting plastic landmines.