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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
Volume 175, Issue 2-3, Pages 227-234Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.07.001
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SR-XRF; SPring-8 BL37XU; LLD; discrimination of glass fragments; elemental analysis
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Synchrotron radiation high-energy X-ray fluorescence (SR-XRF) analysis utilizing 75.5 keV X-ray radiation from beam-line BL37XU at Super Photon Ring 8 GeV (SPring-8), a third-generation synchrotron facility, was found to have advantages for forensic discrimination of glass samples. The lower limits of detection (LLD) for calibration curves were at the picogram level for Ba, Ce, and Sin and at the 10 pg level for Sr, Zr, Sit, and Hf. The spectrum of NIST SRM 612 glass reference material demonstrated K-line peaks of 31 elements including rare-earth elements, and the relative standard deviations (R.S.D.) of all the measured elements except Ca were less than 9.7%. Fragments of collected sheet glass were used as samples for investigating the application of this technique to forensic analysis. Several trace elements such as Pb, Rb, Sr, Zr, La, Ce, and Hf were detected in the spectra of the samples, and these elements could be used as indexes to characterize the glass samples. But the lower limits of detection (LLD) of each element were not examined enough. In this report, these limits by synchrotron radiation X-ray spectrometry were clarified. By these results, this technique should provide an effective approach to the nondestructive discrimination of small glass fragments in the field of forensic science. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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