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Flame tests and emission spectra

Drugs in sport

How chemistry can beat the cheats

LONDON 2012

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Steroid drugs have been used by certain unscrupulous athletes to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors. It falls to the analytical chemist to beat these drug cheats, using an array of analytical techniques, such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.

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