Activation Analysis—An Aid to Forensic Investigations

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Activation analysis is a technique which can be sensitive, specific, rapid and often non-destructive. It is based on nuclear transmutations whereby individual induced radioactivities can be related quantitatively to the amounts of the parent elements in an unknown sample.

This technique has found, several applications in forensic science but its potential uses have not been widely exploited. Apart from the well-known method of arsenic determination, activation analysis has been mainly used as a means of sample identification through characteristic trace element “patterns”.

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