Wvu fis 201 final exam Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Forensic - Forum: place of debate Court of law Science - Method of study used to empirically understand and describe the physical universe Fallibilism - Awareness that there could be alternative explanations 17th & 18th Century - Medicine 19th Century - Medicine, chemistry, law, photography 20th Century - Microscopy, fingerprints, pathology, chemistry, etc... Alexander Lacassagne - - professor of forensic medicine @ Lyon university - wide ranging interests: decomposition, bal...

Marquis Reagent - Turns purple with Heroin and Morphine, orange/brown with amphetamines Dillie-Koppanyi - Violet blue with Barbiturates Duquenosis-Levine - Purple with marijuana when chloroform is added Van Urk - Blue/purple with LSD (not appropriate for field tests) Scott Test - Color test for Cocaine. Adding cobalt thiocyanate turns solution blue, add hydrochloric acid and blue turns to pink, then add chloroform and it turns back to blue for positive result. Chromatography - Any...