What does AP stand for?

Acetone Peroxide (explosive)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In a safe in Swift's bedroom, police found plans of the school, instructions on how to use a substance called acetone peroxide as a detonator, and a blue tin full of table tennis balls.

PUPILS 'WANTED TO DO A COLUMBINE' Pals planned bloodbath at school, ...

The entries start with acetone peroxide (explosive) to the Zealots who used terror against the Romans in the first century BC.

The Future of Terror. Frank Barnaby. Granta Books

The homemade bomb was made from acetone peroxide, an unstable but commonly available material.

Mexico says drug traffickers behind bomb

The base material acetone peroxide has a shelf life, say experts, of less than a week.

Copycats or bombers from the same cell?

Early reports suggested the bombers had used a military plastic explosive during the attacks but it was later claimed that police had found acetone peroxide, a highly volatile mixture also known as Mother of Satan or TATP, in a bath during a raid on a house in the Hyde Park area of Leeds.

Explosives mystery

It was later claimed that police had found acetone peroxide - a highly volatile mixture - in a bath during the Leeds raid

London bombs probe

Peroxide is an ingredient in Acetone Peroxide - also known as TATP or "Mother of Satan" - which was used in the London attacks.

7/7: War on Britain: SCENT FROM HELL.. 'Terror plot to use perfume in ...

Meanwhile, detectives in Leeds are trying to establish whether a substance found in a raid there is acetone peroxide ( also known as "Mother of Satan" and TATP.

Police fly to Cairo following arrest