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Forensics and English

Posted by quirksalight on February 9, 2009

Last week was the second to last week I’ll be in the classroom. It’s also a great group of students to work with, as this was the “English Camp” and the students are self-selecting… I don’t have to push them, they all WANT to be in school. :) Just awesome…

So I tried to keep things interesting… hence, the last two days, we learned about some simple forensics. What it was, fingerprints and fingerprinting, invisible ink, and ink analysis by paper chromatography.

Paper chromatography:

Black ink on strips of paper

Black ink on strips of paper

[caption id="attachment_589" align="alignnone" width="128" caption="Using alcohol to separate "]Using alcohol to separate [/caption]
separated

separated


Invisible ink:
Paper with ink

Paper with ink

[caption id="attachment_594" align="alignnone" width="128" caption="Heating the inked strip"]Heating the inked strip[/caption]
After heating

After heating

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