Forensic discrimination of blue ballpoint pens on documents by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and multivariate analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 228, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Alamilla, Francisco ^a,b   Calcerrada, Matías ^b   García Ruiz, Carmen ^b   Torre, Mercedes ^b  

^a Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ballpoint; Discrimination power; Forensic document; Ink analysis; LA ICP MS; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COPPER; INK; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; NICKEL; TIN; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM; ZINC; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HANDWRITING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876472393     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.034     Document Type: Article

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