Chapter 18 The chemical analysis of fire debris for potential accelerants

Handbook of Analytical Separations

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 617-678

  Bertsch, Wolfgang ^a   Ren, Qiulei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 0038354536     PISSN: 15677192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-7192(00)80073-X     Document Type: Article

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