ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1980
Page Count: 3

On the Examination of the Military Explosive, C-4
Snow, KB
Forensic chemists, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, D.C.

Peimer, RE
Forensic chemists, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, D.C.

Washington, WD
Forensic chemists, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, D.C.

(Received 11 September 1979; accepted 15 October 1979)

Abstract

A technique is described for the analysis of the plastic explosive, C-4. The method involves a chloroform extraction of the sample and an infrared examination of the extract. Problems that may be encountered in attempting to identify C-4 are discussed and solutions to these problems are proposed.

Keywords:
criminalistics, explosives, spectroscopic analysis

Paper ID: JFS12144J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12144J
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