Trace Element Profiles and Ratios Determined by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis for Fine Paper Identification
Trace Element Profiles and Ratios Determined by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis for Fine Paper Identification

Author: DB. Blanchard

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Published: 1978

Total Pages: 8

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Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) has been applied to virtually every type of evidentiary material for forensic purposes, including glass, rubber, narcotics, soil, and paper [1-5]. Literature to date on sample identification of fine paper (book or bond-type writing papers) by INAA has not emphasized the value of trace element concentration profiles or elemental ratios. It is to this area of sample identification that this investigation was directed. Some assets of INAA that make it suitable for forensic analysis are (1) the often nondestructive nature of the technique, which is valuable in many legal situations; (2) extremely high sensitivity, allowing small samples of evidentiary material to be used when mutilation is permitted; and (3) the ability to analyze for many elements in a single sample.

Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology
Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology

Author: Michael J. Hughes

Publisher: British Museum Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 270

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Sixteen papers, some from (as long ago as) a 1986 symposium at the British Museum, giving an overview of research in the application of NAA and inductively-coupled plasma emission spectrometry to archaeology. The papers describe the merits and some of the problems with the two techniques when used for multi-element analysis of ceramics, glass, marble and flint. Contributors from laboratories at the British Museum and the Natural History Museum in London and in Oxford, Toronto, Ghent, Bonn, Sofia, Jerusalem, Cologne, Strasbourg, Bradford and Paris.