Profiling of Illicit Cocaine Seized in China by ICP-MS Analysis of Inorganic Elements

Highlights • An ICP-MS method was developed for simultaneous analysis of 26 elements in cocaine. • Elements concentration ranges were obtained after analysis of 183 seized cocaine samples. • Combinations of data treatment. • methods and distance/correlation measurements were tested for the best disc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Forensic science international 2017-07, Vol.276, p.77-84
Hauptverfasser:	Liu, Cuimei, Hua, Zhendong, Meng, Xin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aluminum Amphetamines Antimony Arsenic Barium Cadmium Calcium Calibration Cerium Chromium Chromium iron Cluster analysis Clusters Cobalt Cocaine Copper Correlation analysis Criminal investigations Dissolution Distribution management Drug profiling Drugs Emission spectroscopy Forensic sciences HCA Heroin Inductive coupled plasma-mass spectrometry Inorganic element Intelligence Iron Lanthanum Lead Magnesium Manganese Mass spectrometry Mass spectroscopy Methamphetamine Methods Molybdenum Narcotics Networks Nickel Pathology Pattern recognition Polyethylene Potassium Sample preparation Scientific imaging Selenium Silver Sodium Standardization Trace elements Zinc
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Zusammenfassung:	Highlights • An ICP-MS method was developed for simultaneous analysis of 26 elements in cocaine. • Elements concentration ranges were obtained after analysis of 183 seized cocaine samples. • Combinations of data treatment. • methods and distance/correlation measurements were tested for the best discrimination power. • HCA analysis of 183 seized samples showed 21 groups of linked sample.
ISSN:	0379-0738 1872-6283
DOI:	10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.04.014