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Nerdforlife wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2019, 2:44 pm What all do we need to know for this event?

The rules manual is a good place to start, as is the scioly.org page for forensics: https://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Forensics

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I'm not going to nats but I was just curious, how do you guys practice for forensics over the summer? If you are willing to spend the money you can buy a lot of the materials online through Science Olympiad or other companies. You can surprisingly even get cheap equipment and make it work (I have a...

Does anyone have advice on how to differentiate between cross sections of Nummulites vs Fusulinids

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Forensics

and if this is socially acceptable, Mission...its a love-hate relationship

I usually only use the appearance as a last resort to narrowing down. Lets say there are 2 with a yellow flame test, and they have the same solubility, etc. then I would go to the appearance... I think they were referring to tests where there are no flame tests... Some of the powders I have worked ...

The Solon Invitational forensics was absolutely insane. My partner's first time doing it, so I had her literally just read and make lists of the suspects/what would implicate them. That alone took her 10 minutes (but she did find a bonus at the end of the instructions). We were lost at what to do w...

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