Contraband-drug surface chemistry at nanogram levels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2937, Issue , 1997, Pages 245-250

  Homstead, Juliana ^a   Poziomek, Edward J ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine freebase; Cocaine hydrochloride; Contraband drugs; IMS; Ion mobility spectrometry; Pyrolysis; Sampling materials; Surface chemistry

Indexed keywords

AIR; CAPILLARITY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DESORPTION; INSULATING MATERIALS; IONS; MATERIALS HANDLING; PYROLYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COCAINE FREEBASE; COCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE; CONTRABAND DRUGS; IMS; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY;

SURFACES;

EID: 58149252093     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.266777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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