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Letter: Letter

Published 25 May 2002

From G. R. Sinclair

Highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide is extremely unstable. It has been used in torpedoes by Britain’s Royal Navy and the Russian Navy with catastrophic results. The idea of a robot walking around my house loaded with the stuff is not something that I would relish.

Yeovil, Somerset

Issue no. 2344 published 25 May 2002

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