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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 | |