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The results from a Canadian national field trial comparing 1,8-diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) with ninhydrin and the sequence DFO followed by ninhydrin / prepared by Della Wilkinson, Doris Rumsby, Brian Babin, Mike Merritt and Jim Marsh.

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Résultats d’essais sur le terrain à l’échelle du Canada visant à comparer la 1,8-diazafluorén-9-one (DFO), la ninhydrine et la séquence DFO suivie de la ninhydrine.

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1 online resource (33 pages)

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Author(s) affiliated with: RCMP, Forensic Identification Research Services (Ottawa); OPP, Forensic Identification Support Services (Orillia); RCMP, Forensic Identification Services (Moncton); and RCMP, Forensic Identification Services (Edmonton).
Also issued in French under title: Résultats d’essais sur le terrain à l’échelle du Canada visant à comparer la 1,8-diazafluorén-9-one (DFO), la ninhydrine et la séquence DFO suivie de la ninhydrine.

Summary

"This paper describes the Canadian National Field Trials comparing 1,8- diazafluoren-9-one (DFO), ninhydrin and the sequence DFO followed by ninhydrin. The solutions were used to process casework exhibits in three RCMP and one OPP Forensic Identification Sections located across the country. The sequence DFO followed by ninhydrin recovered the highest number of latent fingermarks."

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Technical report (Canadian Police Research Centre) ; TR-03-2005.

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