Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 61-66 , June 2008

Quantitative evaluation of europium in blue ballpoint pen inks/offset printing inks tagged with europium thenoyltrifluoroacetonate by spectrofluorometry and ICP-AES

  • S.D. Maind

      Affiliations

    • Neutron Activation Analysis Unit of Central Forensic Science Laboratory Hyderabad at Analytical Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. NAA Unit, Analytical Chemistry Division, Modular labs, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India. Tel.: +91 022 25505334; fax: +91 22 25505151 or +91 22 25519613.
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  • N. Chattopadhyay

      Affiliations

    • Neutron Activation Analysis Unit of Central Forensic Science Laboratory Hyderabad at Analytical Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. NAA Unit, Analytical Chemistry Division, Modular labs, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India. Tel.: +91 022 25505334; fax: +91 22 25505151 or +91 22 25519613.
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  • Ch. Gandhi

      Affiliations

    • Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad, 500013, India
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  • S.C. Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Analytical Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
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  • M. Sudersanan

      Affiliations

    • Analytical Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India

,Accepted 25 September 2007.

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