...JC Oxley, PhD; JL Smith, PhD; E Resende, PhD; E Pearce, BS; T Chamberlain, PhD This study sought to assign a rough order of magnitude for the amount of explosive residue likely to be available in real-world searches for clandestine explosives. A variety of explosives (TNT, TATP, HMX, AN, RDX, PETN...

...KE Hall; BR McCord, Ph.D. The separation of nine mono- and divalent cations of interest in explosives residue analysis was achieved using a Waters IC Pak-C Cation M/D column with a 3 mN HNO 3 eluent and conductivity detection. The apparatus was then used to collect data on the types of cations...

...: pathology and biology, trace evidence, explosives, blast, explosions, explosive residue, forensic radiology Nationwide, over the past ten years, fewer than 10% of all bombing cases have been solved [ l]. In most instances this is partly a result of a lack of physical evidence from the exploded device...