Quality assurance testing of an explosives trace analysis laboratory - Further improvements to include peroxide explosives

Science and Justice

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 217-225

  Crowson, Andrew ^a   Cawthorne, Richard ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explosives; Gas chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Peroxide; Quality assurance; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE; PEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; EXPLOSIVES TRACE ANALYSIS LABORATORY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LABORATORY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84867649467     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: 18764452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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