New Forensic Technique-Pulse Bombing

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Posting this for members interested in forensics.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/n...que+improves+accuracy+when/7387709/story.html

October 13, 2012

By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News

‘Pulse-bomb dating’ technique improves accuracy when identifying remains

The bomb-pulse technique takes advantage of the fact that when atomic testing was conducted during the 1950s and 1960s, worldwide concentrations of carbon-14 increased at specific increments that can be matched to chemical signatures in organic material.
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The bomb-pulse data, he added, can be particularly useful in distinguishing between “historical remains” and more recent cold cases “where obvious ways of making identifications aren’t available.”
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“this case study highlights the enormous potential of these combined techniques for ‘cold case’ identifications and other challenging forensic contexts dating to the last half century.”
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(also mass burials)
 
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