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Security checkpoints at airports sometimes are mistaking hand lotion as bomb material. Incidents are rare, but passengers at airports in Los Angeles, Hawaii and elsewhere have been stopped because “trace-detection” technology at security checkpoints picked up glycerines. The chemicals are in many hand lotions but also in the family of nitrates sometimes used to make bombs. Other everyday materials that could set off trace-detection machines include residue from fireworks, nitrate fertilizer (sometimes found on golf shoes or clubs) and a heart patient’s nitroglycerine pills.
