The Explosives area in the Chemistry section of the Laboratory has a wide array of instrumentation at its disposal in order to carry out a chemical analysis of a suspect material.
Such instrumentation includes: FT-IR, XRF, GC-MS, GC-ECD, TLC and Ion Chromatography.
Items submitted for analysis are examined for the presence of organic and inorganic explosive substances and other materials related to explosives.
Typcial case work items include pipe bombs, hoax devices, suspicious powders, firework compositions and propellant powders.