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Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Forensic Chemistry
(Chemistry)

Chemia kryminalistyczna

Master's
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⇑Forensic Chemistry at UMCS

Field of studies: Chemistry
Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: www.umcs.pl/en

⇑Test: check whether Forensic Chemistry is the right major for you!

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Answer all questions and find out if Forensic Chemistry (Master's, 2-year program) is the right major for you!

1. Do you want to deepen your understanding of chemical techniques used in crime scene investigation (e.g., trace evidence, toxicology, drug analysis)?

2. Are you interested in applying analytical instrumentation (e.g., GC-MS, LC-MS, spectroscopy) to identify substances relevant to criminal cases?

3. Do you want to acquire skills in evidence collection, preservation, and contamination prevention?

4. Are you prepared to work on interdisciplinary teams with law enforcement, legal professionals, and other scientists?

5. Do you see a master’s in Forensic Chemistry as a key step to advancing your career in criminalistics, forensic labs, or justice system roles?

6. Are you interested in understanding the legal and ethical context of forensic evidence, including expert testimony and chain of custody?

7. Do you enjoy designing and executing experiments that help reconstruct events from chemical traces?

8. Are you motivated to contribute to research that improves detection limits, reliability, or new forensic markers?

9. Do you feel comfortable communicating technical chemical findings clearly to non-scientists (e.g., detectives, juries)?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a master's in Forensic Chemistry?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds. Chemistry addresses topics such as how atoms and molecules interact via chemical bonds to form new chemical compounds. There are four types of chemical bonds: covalent bonds, in which compounds share one or more electron(s); ionic bonds, in which a compound donates one or more electrons to another compound to produce ions (cations and anions); hydrogen bonds; and Van der Waals force bonds.
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Forensic Chemistry
Forensic chemistry is the application of chemistry and its subfield, forensic toxicology, in a legal setting. A forensic chemist can assist in the identification of unknown materials found at a crime scene. Specialists in this field have a wide array of methods and instruments to help identify unknown substances. These include high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and thin layer chromatography. The range of different methods is important due to the destructive nature of some instruments and the number of possible unknown substances that can be found at a scene. Forensic chemists prefer using nondestructive methods first, to preserve evidence and to determine which destructive methods will produce the best results.
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Chemistry
I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the U.S. government’s effort to decipher the human genome (DNA). cnn.com
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Chemistry
We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry,
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) (1895) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers p. 580.
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Chemistry
Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. As I look back, I think it is pretty remarkable that Mr. Ziegler, this friend of the family, would have so easily turned over one-third of an ounce of potassium cyanide to me, an eleven-year-old boy.
Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci, p. 29
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