Shattered: Analysis Of Forensic Glass
By: Vincenzo D. Crawford Bs. Forensic Science Vincenzo D. Crawford Bs. Forensic Science University of Technology (U-Tech), Jamaica
GLASS ANALYSIS
TYPES OF GLASS, HOW TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF GLASS, AND ANALYSIS OF GLASS FRACTURE PATTERNS
Glass can be considered as hard liquid. It is a hard material but brittle in its formation; defined by the online Oxford English dictionary as an inorganic product of fusion which has been cooled to a rigid condition to become a non-crystalline solid and which makes glass amorphous in nature. Its melting point is not definite and glass is quite complicated in its molecular composition. This laboratory experiment was executed in light of a scenario that conveyed a car accident which occurred, resulting in the breaking of the head lamp of a car owner, who was suspected to be in the wrong. Pieces of glass from the crime sceneand edges of the suspect’s headlamp were collected for analysis.
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