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IN present circumstances, the examination of documents recovered from receptacles which have been exposed to intense heat has become a matter of some importance, which has already been referred to in NATURE1. Many of these burnt documents have been incinerated at a high temperature in the virtual absence of oxygen and can better be described as ‘carbonized’ than as ‘charred’. Such documents do not necessarily behave in the same way as specimens produced in the laboratory by incineration in air.
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NATURE, 147, 417, 676 (1941).
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MURRAY, H. Examination of Burnt Documents. Nature 148, 199 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148199a0
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