Customs agents have a device where you put a substance on a small metal plate and it tells you exactly what it is (like cocaine etc). How does this work and how accurate is it? Submitted by Weird-Vagina-Beard t3_ycilmw on October 24, 2022 at 6:23 PM in askscience 14 comments 14
Problem119V-0800 t1_itosjrf wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:21 AM Reply to comment by amateurneuron in Customs agents have a device where you put a substance on a small metal plate and it tells you exactly what it is (like cocaine etc). How does this work and how accurate is it? by Weird-Vagina-Beard Ah, cool. So probably one of these FTIR or Raman spectrometers? Permalink Parent 1 SamQuan236 t1_itrr9p3 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 8:37 PM I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it is not raman. raman scattering is very weak, and would work better with prepared samples. Permalink Parent 2 [deleted] t1_itu6q9o wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:24 AM [removed] Permalink Parent 1
SamQuan236 t1_itrr9p3 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 8:37 PM I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it is not raman. raman scattering is very weak, and would work better with prepared samples. Permalink Parent 2
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