Legal Chemistry / A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence

A practical handbook of chemical jurisprudence that outlines laboratory procedures to remove organic matter and isolate toxic agents, followed by specific qualitative and quantitative tests for arsenic, antimony, mercury, phosphorus, acids, halogens, metals, and alkaloids, including Marsh, Reinsch, and Stas methods. It presents general strategies for searching when the toxicant is unknown, sample-destruction and dialysis techniques, and indicative versus determinative approaches. Applied chapters treat examination of firearms, burned human remains, questioned writings and counterfeit alloys, and analysis of alimentary substances such as flour, oils, tea, milk, wine, and vinegar, with an appendix of bibliographical references and analytical notes.