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Acknowledgments | |
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Apologia | |
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Introduction: The Chemistry of Crime | |
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The Case of the Innovative Introduction | |
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Public Safety-and Personal, Too | |
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Crime Lab and Crime Solutions | |
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Bare-Bones Chemistry | |
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A Significant Difference | |
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Confidence in Chemistry and Confidence in Clues: The Significance of Digits | |
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The Case of the Presumptive Perp | |
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Cashing It In | |
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Improbable Profiling: Finding Massive Clues | |
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The Case of the Significant Other | |
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The Color of Crime | |
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My Dear Watson: Elements and the Evidence They Contain | |
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The Case of the Mystifying Metal | |
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Chromatography and Crime | |
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Isolating the Witness: Screening Tests Tell | |
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The Case of the Dueling Drugs | |
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A Case of Friction | |
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Fatal Attraction: Intermolecular Forces Make the Charges Stick | |
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The Case of the Sticky Situation | |
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The Current Case | |
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Volatile Situation: Mass, Gas, and Chemical Fingerprints | |
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The Case of the Validating Vacuum | |
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Place of Confinement | |
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Too Much of a Good Thing: Establishing Concentration Levels | |
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A Case of Strong Medicine | |
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Solid Evidence | |
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Crystal-Clear Crime: Microcrystalline Identification | |
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The Case of the Sweet Surrender | |
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Felonious Interactions | |
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Physical Evidence | |
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A Change for the Worse: When It Gets Physical | |
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The Case of the Physical Flaw | |
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Precipitating Events | |
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Chemistry Under the Influence: Compounding the Crime | |
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A Case of Nerves | |
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Seeing Red, Wearing Blue | |
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Acrimonious Adversity: Acid-Base Chemistry | |
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The Case of the Cracked Case | |
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Reduced to Essentials | |
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Burning Passion: Runaway Redox Reactions | |
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The Case of the Reducing Rat | |
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Incriminating Chemistry | |
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The Smoking Gun: Explosive Chemical Reactions | |
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The Case of the Material Witness | |
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Three Strikes and a Foul | |
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In Hot Water: Thermochemistry | |
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A Very Cold Case | |
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Sequence of Events | |
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Doing Time: The Importance of Chemical Reaction Rates | |
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A Matter of Timing | |
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Extracting the Truth | |
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The Clue Is in the GUE: Physical Equilibrium | |
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The Case of the Perfect Grime | |
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Evidence Indicating Otherwise | |
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Equal, Just as for All: Chemical Equilibrium | |
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The Case of the Well-Handled Crime | |
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Interrogation Lights | |
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Behind Prism Bars | |
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Enough Rope: Infrared Spectroscopy for Fiber and More | |
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A Case of Canine Karma | |
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Examining the Evidence | |
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Under the Microscope: Microscopy | |
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The Case of Courting Trouble | |
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Point of Law | |
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Sexy Science: Laser Ablation | |
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The Case of the Subtle Smear | |
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Illuminating Details | |
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The Glaring Truth: Chemiluminescence and Fluorescence | |
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The Case of the Hirsute Homeless | |
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Corpus Delicti | |
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Pointing the Finger | |
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The Prince of Forensics: Fingerprint Technology | |
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The Case of the Elusive Acetone | |
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A Bloody Shame | |
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Sticky Cases: Bodily Fluid Identification | |
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The Case of the Contraband Confection | |
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Sorting Out the Facts | |
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Unlocking the Cell: Death, Decay, and DNA | |
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The Case of the Flowery Felon | |
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The Big Jolt | |
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Sniffing Out the Truth: The Future of Forensic Chemistry | |
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The Case of the Clean Getaway | |
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Postmortem | |
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The Periodic Table of the Elements | |
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Endnotes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |