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2 unusual facts about ADE 651


ADE 651

Caroline Hawley from the BBC's Newsnight programme investigated the ADE 651 in a report broadcast in January 2010, asking the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to assess one of the "programmed substance detection cards" used in the device to detect TNT.

Nuclear quadrupole resonance

A fake device known as the ADE 651 claimed to exploit NQR to detect explosives but in fact could do no such thing.



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