Australian Federal Police seizures of illicit crystalline methamphetamine ('ice') 1998-2002: Impurity analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 201-210

  Qi, Ying ^a,b   Evans, Ian D ^b   McCluskey, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Australian Federal Police   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Ice'; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Illicit drugs; Impurity profiling; Methamphetamine

Indexed keywords

1 BENZYL 3 METHYLNAPHTHALENE; 1,2 DIMETHYL 3 PHENYLAZIRIDINE; 1,3 DIMETHYL 2 PHENYLNAPHTHALENE; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; DIMETAMFETAMINE; METHAMPHETAMINE; N ACETYLMETHAMPHETAMINE; N FORMYLMETHAMPHETAMINE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

EID: 33751028770     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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