Forensic Chemistry: Fundamentals

FORENSIC CHEMISTRY FUNDAMENTALS strives to help scientists & lawyers,
& students, understand how their two disciplines come together for forensic science,
in the contexts of analytical chemistry & related science more generally, and the
common law systems of Canada, USA, UK, the Commonwealth.
In this book, forensics is considered more generally than as only for criminal
law; workplace health & safety, and other areas are included. And, two issues of
Canadian legal process are argued as essays in the fi nal two chapters.

• Forensics essential concepts; concepts of science & measurement.
• The natures of matter, electromagnetic radiation & energy.
• Chemical structural diagrams, nomenclature & Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers.