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    Forensic chemistry involves the chemical analysis of any material that could be relevant to legal proceedings. This includes the analysis of evidence in criminal investigations like poisons, blood stains, questioned documents, and fibers. The scope of forensic chemistry is wide, as an expert must not only be a capable chemist but also experienced in microscopy and photography. When examining evidence, the process typically involves three stages - receiving the item, examining it through various chemical tests, and communicating the examination results. The examination of blood stains specifically follows three distinct stages - a preliminary test to determine if a stain may be blood, confirmatory tests to detect hemoglobin through micro-chemical tests or observing absorption spectra, and identification tests to identify the species

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    Forensic chemistry involves the chemical analysis of any material that could be relevant to legal proceedings. This includes the analysis of evidence in criminal investigations like poisons, blood stains, questioned documents, and fibers. The scope of forensic chemistry is wide, as an expert must not only be a capable chemist but also experienced in microscopy and photography. When examining evidence, the process typically involves three stages - receiving the item, examining it through various chemical tests, and communicating the examination results. The examination of blood stains specifically follows three distinct stages - a preliminary test to determine if a stain may be blood, confirmatory tests to detect hemoglobin through micro-chemical tests or observing absorption spectra, and identification tests to identify the species

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    Forensic chemistry involves the chemical analysis of any material that could be relevant to legal proceedings. This includes the analysis of evidence in criminal investigations like poisons, blood stains, questioned documents, and fibers. The scope of forensic chemistry is wide, as an expert must not only be a capable chemist but also experienced in microscopy and photography. When examining evidence, the process typically involves three stages - receiving the item, examining it through various chemical tests, and communicating the examination results. The examination of blood stains specifically follows three distinct stages - a preliminary test to determine if a stain may be blood, confirmatory tests to detect hemoglobin through micro-chemical tests or observing absorption spectra, and identification tests to identify the species

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    SCOPE OF FORENSIC CHEMISTRY

    Scope of Forensic Chemistry. The scope of forensic


    chemistry is very wide and the boundaries of the subject are
    very ill-defined. Not only does it include the chemical side
    of criminal investigation, with which it is generally associated
    in the public mind, and to which it will be limited in the
    following pages, but it is also concerned with the analysis
    of any material the quality of which may give rise to legal
    proceedings. Forensic chemistry, too, deals not only with
    purely chemical questions, such as the nature, composition
    and quality of materials as determined by analysis, and
    the examination of articles for the presence or absence of
    particular substances, such as poisons, but it is concerned
    also with questions which are only partly chemical, as for
    example the examination of blood stains, questioned documents, counterfeit coins, fibres and textile fabrics, and the
    expert in forensic chemistry should be not only a capable
    analyst, but also an experienced microscopist and photographer.

    Practice of Forensic Chemistry. The practice of


    forensic chemistry naturall}^ resolves itself into three stages,
    namely (1) the reception of the article to be examined, (2)
    the examination, and (3) the communication of the results.
    These three stages may usefully be considered in detail.
    Examination of Blood Stains.

    The examination of blood stains is divided into three


    distinct stages, namely :

    (1) A preliminary test. This is a quick, easy method of

    deciding whether a stain is likely to be blood or not.


    At present there is no simple chemical test known
    which is absolute proof of the presence of blood, but
    there are several tests by which a stain may be
    excluded as not being blood.

    (2) Confirmatory tests. These, which are directed to the

    detection of haemoglobin, vary in sensitiveness and


    ease of application and may be divided into :
    (o) Micro-chemical test : production of haemin

    crystals by various methods.


    (6) Observation of a characteristic absorption
    spectrum of some form of haemoglobin,
    usually that of haemochromogen (reduced
    haematin).

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