forensic chemicals

[Stuart Fullerton]

dear folks:

trying to help a grad student out.

is there a simple chemical method, like a strip of litmus paper (it
should be that easy??)  that would allow her to take a small sample of a
solution and test for starch, animal protean  and perhaps (and this
would be really really grand)  between mammal protean and insect protean.

if you wish reply to me off list or even to her - megan keserauskis above.

thanks ever so much

cheers!  rof
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Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod

Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO

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