20Jul 2017

ANALYSIS OF COMMONLY USED BLUE BALLPOINT PEN INK IN INDIA BY PLANAR CHROMATOGRAPHY.

  • M.sc Forensic Science, Amity Institute Of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Noida.
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Document examination has always been an important part of forensic examination. Incidents of forgery have increased tremendously and to alter these documents pens are widely used. Additions, alterations, obliterations play an important role in document examination. During a forensic document examination a major question which arises in the mind of examiner is: when was a particular ink entry made on the document? Immense numbers of documents are written, printed and copied each year and so are the suspect documents. Identification of suspected documents has become common subject for forensic document examination. Five brands of blue ballpoint pen which are widely used in India were taken (Two models from each brand). Ink entries were prepared by writing ?INK? word on paper. The analysis of writing ink (Blue ball point pen ink) by planar chromatography was done using paper chromatography and thin layer chromatography. This study is aimed to determine the separation of ink within brands of blue ballpoint pen and results were compared with the acquired reference sample. The blue ballpoint ink is separated in order to find out the composition of ink and its separation within their brands, model and batches and also to find out that which technique of chromatography is best and also to find out which solvent system is best to perform ink analysis. Blue ink was not separated by paper chromatography but it was separated and differentiated by thin layer chromatography. Although both techniques are destructive in nature but Thin Layer Chromatography is best and reliable technique than paper chromatography.


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[Kiran. (2017); ANALYSIS OF COMMONLY USED BLUE BALLPOINT PEN INK IN INDIA BY PLANAR CHROMATOGRAPHY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 981-988] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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amity institute of forensic sciences

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4806      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4806