Preliminary Investigations into Using Eugenol to Recover Erased Characters on Polymers

In this paper we present our preliminary studies on the efficacy of eugenol for the recovery of erased characters on polymers. We have found that eugenol rapidly recovers erased characters when applied to the surface of polymer substrates. By applying eugenol to the surface to be treated using a c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burke, Karl, Lewis, Simon, Bett, J., Southurst, T., Lim, K., Gutowski, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Association for Identification 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5908