Establishing a universal swabbing and clean-up protocol for the combined recovery of organic and inorganic explosive residues

Forensic Science International

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 136-147

  Song im, Nopporn ^a,c   Benson, Sarah ^b   Lennard, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b Australian Federal Police   (Australia)

^c ChemCentre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol wipes; Clean up protocol; Explosives; Inorganic residues; Organic residues; Sampling; Solid phase extraction; Swabs

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ACETONITRILE; AMINE OXIDE; CHLORATE; CYCLONITE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METHANOL; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRANITRATE; TRIACETONE TRIPEROXIDE; TRINITROTOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CARTRIDGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETENTION CAPACITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; UNIVERSAL SWABBING;

EID: 84870302703     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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