MineReader
The engineers of the Australian company MRead, working in the field of high technology, have succeeded in the seemingly impossible – to create a mine detector capable of detecting explosives directly using magnetic resonance.
Modern mines are constantly being improved. For example, there are "smart" mines that react to specific objects, plastic mines that are difficult to detect with a conventional mine detector, programmed to self-destruct at a certain time, and others. However, there are still millions of unexploded mines in the ground, which pose a deadly danger. The MineReader minereader from MRead was developed based on research materials from the Australian scientific agency CSIRO. The company's engineers abandoned the traditional method of detecting explosive objects by electromagnetic induction in favor of fixing the explosive signature (RDX).
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For example, rdx (C3H6N6O6), containing 6 nitrogen atoms in a molecule, can be detected using magnetic resonance, since nitrogen atoms in the crystalline matrix of an explosive react in a special way to radio frequency pulses, which can then be recorded and analyzed. According to the developers, compact as a conventional mine detector, the MineReader is able to detect 50 g of rdx at a depth of up to 13 cm in moist, mineralized soil among a variety of metal and organic fragments.
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Alexander Ageev
