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GSR (gunshot residue)

Primer-combustion products (classically lead-barium-antimony compounds, now also non-lead formulations) deposited on the bone surface at close or contact range; detected by SEM-EDX analysis and used as an independent range indicator complementing the osteological morphological findings.

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