University of Delaware labs reopen after explosive accidentally synthesised by student

University of Delaware in Newark

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The shock-sensitive material was destroyed in a controlled detonation

Several laboratories and buildings on the University of Delaware’s campus reopened for classes and resumed normal operations on 9 February, following evacuations and then a controlled detonation of ‘a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive chemical’ inadvertently produced at research lab on campus the previous day.