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Polymers are ubiquitous in our everyday life, so it is highly likely that they may be somewhat involved in the commission of crimes. Fibres will be shed by the garments of a burglar, paint smears and plastic fragments can be left in car accidents, adhesive tape can be used for the packaging of illegal drugs, wires insulated by a polymeric coating are part of many bombs, etc.
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This is the reason why in this book the terms item, specimen and sample will be used as synonyms, even if they rigorously represent different concepts.
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Within-group variation refers to replicates within the same group or source, between-group variation is that between groups or sources [32].
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Causin, V. (2015). Polymeric Traces: Transfer, Persistence, Recovery, Analysis and Interpretation of Analytical Data. In: Polymers on the Crime Scene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15494-7_3
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