Fingerprint reagents with dual action: Color and fluorescence

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 330-334

  Almog, Joseph ^a   Levinton Shamuilov, Genyia ^a   Cohen, Yaron ^a   Azoury, Myriam ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Div of Identification/Forensic Sci   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amino acid reagent; Cadmium chloride; Colorimetric; Fingerprint reagent; Fluorogenic; Forensic science; Ninhydrin; Zinc chloride

Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN; METAL; NINHYDRIN; REAGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FLUORESCENCE; ILLUMINATION; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE;

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORIDES; DERMATOGLYPHICS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; IRIDOIDS; NINHYDRIN; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33847096874     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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