Pollen-Coated Sticky Bullets Could Help Track A Shooter!
'Guns and Roses' plays in the background as I write about Lily pollen (ah! not rose) being coated in bullets to help forensic teams track the shooter. Paul Sermon, a nano-materials engineer at Brunel University, London, and his team went along with the process by immersing the cartridge in an aluminium oxide and urea solution. These help in grabbing the skin cells of the person who loaded the gun. After their experimentation with a 9mm Browning pistol, researchers had 53 percent more feasible DNA resting with them, as compared to those collected from traditional bullets. Also, the coatings could sustain the heat generated by the bullet after it was fired.
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The pollen from the Easter lily, Lilium longiflorum, follow next, when they are covered in titanium dioxide and released in liquid plastic. The bottom of the bullet casing is layered with this substance, and the merger develops a distinctive mark of the hands that loaded the gun. If at all this technique is employed, it will be a lot easier to trace the person who loaded the gun, but the question still lingers- "Who SHOT the bullet?"
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The pollen from the Easter lily, Lilium longiflorum, follow next, when they are covered in titanium dioxide and released in liquid plastic. The bottom of the bullet casing is layered with this substance, and the merger develops a distinctive mark of the hands that loaded the gun. If at all this technique is employed, it will be a lot easier to trace the person who loaded the gun, but the question still lingers- "Who SHOT the bullet?"
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