Gunshot residue analysis in the undergraduate laboratory using toy cap guns

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 534-538

  Dockery, Christopher R ^a   Turner, Julie ^a   Rosenberg, Matthew B ^a   Kammerdiener, Kimberly ^a   Mungai, Susan W ^a  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic analysis; GSR; Gunshot residue; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; LIBS; Spectroscopy education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958605926     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010.2010.510750     Document Type: Article

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