Comment by tylerflick
Comment by tylerflick 3 days ago
The majority of plastic based high explosives are designed to be very stable, and require both heat and pressure to detonate, so my educated guess is they implanted something along the lines of a blasting cap into the pagers. I’ve seen PETN mentioned, but again, that is designed to be stable.
Plastic explosives are impact and heat stable. It takes an electric charge or blast cap to detonate them based on which compound is being used.