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Laser Ablation Goes Primetime

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FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 9 -- "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," the hit TV show (CBS) about a team of forensic investigators who use both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes, recently used laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to crack a particularly tough case. In the episode "What’s Eating Gil Grissom," investigators are stumped by a crime scene comprised only of human skeletal remains and a near-microscopic blue chip. The sample size is too small for conventional forensics techniques, so they use a laser-ablation...Read full article

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    Published: December 2004
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigationforensic investigatorsICP-MSInductively Coupled Plasma Mass SpectrometryindustrialLA-ICP-MSMicroscopyNews & Featuresspectroscopy

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