The Pocket-Sized Lab's Killer App: Analyzing Illegal and Semi-Legal Drugs

High-tech answers to pressing questions: What's in your marijuana? How pure is your ecstasy?

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The Pocket-Sized Lab's Killer App: Analyzing Illegal and Semi-Legal Drugs
The SCiO, a handheld spectrometer, can reveal the chemical composition of cheese... or of more outlandish substances.
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