ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 6

Identification of Dynamite Explosives in Post Explosion Residues
Sprunkel, A
Forensic Scientist and Graduate Student, c/o Bundeskriminalamt,

Kolla, P
Forensic Scientist and Graduate Student, c/o Bundeskriminalamt,

(Received 12 April 1993; accepted 22 August 1994)

Abstract

The investigation of post blast residues of dynamite explosives with respect to the behavior of nitro-aromatic compounds is described. Experimental blasts were performed with free hanging charges. The samples taken from metal plates placed at different distances from the center of the explosion were analyzed by GC-TEA. The results were evaluated with respect to the relative amounts of the dinitrotoluene isomers to each other. The portions of the dinitrotoluenes showed good correspondance in the post blast residues with the original explosives.

Keywords:
criminalistics, commercial explosives, dynamite explosives, experimental blasts, explosives trace analysis, nitro/nitrospecific detection

Paper ID: JFS13795J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS13795J
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