The Use of Explosives Analysis Methods in the Detection of Crimes Committed with Explosives

Abstract

The subject of my article is the analytical examination of explosives. The question – which I am trying to answer in my article – is what the most accurate methods are to detect/analyse explosives. Over the last decades, with the rapid development of science and the increasing number of terrorist attacks, modern, highly efficient methods and procedures are now available to identify them from a sample of explosive material. Furthermore, I want to introduce such analytical test methods which we can identify the presence of hidden explosives on surfaces in contact with explosives, to identify traces of explosives. It is now commonplace to use a procedure that measuring equipment for the identification of organic compounds, such as chromatography. Such measuring instruments are basically developed to separation of chemical compounds, but with detection specific to a component to be tested system can be added to create an efficient identification method.