Stable isotope forensics : methods and forensic applications of stable isotope analysis / Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Series Foreword; Foreword: Dame Sue Black; Foreword: Mark Harrison; Foreword to the 1 Edition; Book Endorsements; Preface to the 2 Edition; List of Abbreviations; About the CompanionWebsite; Introduction: Stable Isotope 'Profiling' or Chemical 'DNA': A New Dawn for Forensic Chemistry?; Part I How it Works; Chapter I.1 What are Stable Isotopes?

Chapter I.2 Natural Abundance Variation of Stable Isotopes Chapter I.3 Chemically Identical and Yet Not the Same ; Chapter I.4 Isotope Effects, Mass Discrimination and Isotopic Fractionation ; I.4.1 Physical Chemistry Background ; I.4.2 Fractionation Factor and Enrichment Factor

I.4.3 Isotopic Fractionation in Rayleigh Processes I.4.3.1 Isotopic Fractionation Summary ; Chapter I.5 Stable Isotopic Distribution and Isotopic Fractionation of Light Elements in Nature ; I.5.1 Hydrogen ; I.5.2 Oxygen ; I.5.3 Carbon ; I.5.4 Nitrogen ; I.5.5 Sulfur

I.5.6 Isoscapes Chapter I.6 Stable Isotope Forensics in Everyday Life ; I.6.1 ""Food Forensics"" ; I.6.1.1 Authenticity and Provenance of Single-Seed Vegetable Oils ; I.6.1.2 Authenticity and Provenance of Beverages ; I.6.1.3 Caveats

I.6.2 Authenticity and Provenance of other Premium Products I.6.3 Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals ; I.6.4 Environmental Forensics ; I.6.5 Wildlife Forensics ; I.6.6 Anti-Doping Control ; Chapter I.7 Summary of Part I ; References Part I ; Part II Instrumentation, Analytical Techniques and Data Quality

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