Attempted cleaning of bloodstains and its effect on the forensic luminol test

Luminescence

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 411-413

  Creamer, Jonathan I ^a   Quickenden, Terence I ^a   Crichton, Leah B ^a   Robertson, Patrick ^a   Ruhayel, Rasha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bloodstains; Chemiluminescence; Forensic science; Luminol; Presumptive blood testing

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; BLOOD; CLEANING; FORENSIC SCIENCE;

'DRY' [; BLOOD TESTING; BLOODSTAIN; CHEMILUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; LUMINOLS; NAKED-EYE; PRESUMPTIVE BLOOD TESTING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TRACE AMOUNTS; ]+ CATALYST;

CHEMILUMINESCENCE;

EID: 30844442826     PISSN: 15227235     EISSN: 15227243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bio.865     Document Type: Article

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