Forensic science
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Forensic science, often known as criminalistics, is the application of science principles and methods to support decision-making related to rules or law, generally criminal and civil law.
Ambroise Paré's surgical work laid the groundwork for the development of forensic techniques in the following centuries.
This is an example and explanation of extractor/ejector marks on casings.
Apparatus for the arsenic test, devised by James Marsh
Fingerprints taken by William Herschel 1859/60
Fingerprint
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A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of partial fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science. Moisture and grease on
A fingerprint
The friction ridges on a finger
A non-tented fingerprint arch
A fingerprint loop