Stable isotope forensics
Subtitle: an introduction to the forensic application of stable isotope analysis
By: Wolfram Meier-Augenstein.
Publisher: J. Wiley; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780470517055
Subjects: Chemistry, Forensic; Stable isotopes; Forensic Sciences -- methods; Isotopes -- analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are stable isotopes?; title: Natural abundance variation of stable isotopes; title: Chemically identical and yet not the same; title: Isotope effects, mass discrimination, and isotopic fractionation; title: Stable isotopic distribution and isotopic fractionation of light elements in nature; title: Stable isotope forensics in everyday life; title: Set problems; title: Mass spectrometry v. isotope ratio mass spectrometry; title: Instrumentation and ?-notation; title: Isotopic calibration and quality control in CF-IRMS; title: Statistical analysis of stable isotope data within a forensic context; title: Forensic stable isotope analytical procedures; title: Generic considerations for stable isotope analysis; title: Set problems; title: The forensic context; title: Distinguishing drugs; title: Elucidating explosives; title: Matching matchsticks; title: Provenancing people; title: Stable isotope forensics of other physical evidence.