ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

An Explosive Drug Case
White, GM
Crime laboratory analyst, Orlando Crime Laboratory, FL

(Received 29 May 1991; accepted 2 August 1991)

Abstract

As part of an investigation into a homicide, a white crystalline substance was found in a safe. The substance was submitted to the laboratory as a drug sample. Subsequent analysis proved the material to be triacetonetriperoxide (TATP), which is highly explosive. The results of analyses utilizing mass spectrometry, infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometry, energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDXA), and gas chromatography are given, along with the circumstances leading to the discovery that the material was explosive.

Keywords:
criminalistics, triacetonetriperoxide (TATP), explosives, chemical analysis

Paper ID: JFS13275J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS13275J
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