Investigation of hydrogen cyanide generation from the cyanoacrylate fuming process used for latent fingermark detection

Forensic Science International

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 143-149

  Fung, To Carlos ^a   Grimwood, Katharine ^a   Shimmon, Ronald ^a   Spindler, Xanthe ^a,b   Maynard, Philip ^a   Lennard, Chris ^b   Roux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyanide quantitation; Cyanoacrylate fuming; Fingermark detection; Hydrogen cyanide (HCN); Occupational health and safety; Picrate resorcinol

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; CYANOACRYLATE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; MONOMER; PICRATE RESORCINOL; PICRATE SODIUM; PICRIC ACID; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FUMING; HEATING; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80052319474     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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