Glass Examination
Type of glass formed by bonding together two sheets of ordinary glass with a layer of plastic
What is laminated glass?
The outside covering of the hair shaft
What is the cuticle?
This drug is synthesized from lysergic acid derived from the ergot fungus
What is LSD?
A person's blood type if it agglutinates when adding anti-B serum and anti-D serum
What is B+?
This is the man who invented dynamite
Who is Alfred Nobel?
The property of glass measured by the flotation method.
What is density?
The first ever manufactured fiber, developed in 1911
What is rayon?
This is the psychoactive component in marijuana
What is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)?
The full name for DNA
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
These are the three necessary ingredients for a fire
What are fuel, air (oxygen), and heat?
The property of glass measured with a hot-stage microscope
What is refractive index?
The initial growth phase of hair where the follicle is actively producing hair
What is the anagen phase?
A violet/blue color in the Dille-Koppanyi test would indicate the presence of this class of drugs
What are barbiturates?
The color test used to determine the presence of blood in a stain
What is the Kastle-Meyer test?
A device that permits only requested traffic to enter a computer system.
What is a firewall?
What is dispersion?
One of two methods used to determine the dye composition of fibers
What is visible-light spectrophotometry or chromatography?
In gas or liquid chromatography, this is the time required for a component to emerge from the column from the time of its injection
What is retention time?
The name of the technique for replicating a portion of a DNA strand outside a living cell
What is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
The first thing you should do when encountering computer evidence.
What is procure a search warrant?
The name for the stress markings on glass edges that can be used to determine the side on which a window was first cracked
What are Wallner lines?
Name of the man convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders, based on fiber evidence.
Who is Wayne Williams?
This Category A test yields a spectrum that is a "fingerprint" of one substance, so long as the substance is pure
What is infrared spectrophotometry?
A technique that simultaneously detects more than one DNA marker in a single analysis
What is multiplexing?
This is a method that identifies and measures elements through light energy emitted by excited atoms after they are exposed to a hot plasma
What is inductively coupled plasma (ICP)?