Lux Chem

Fingerprint
Analysis
Name : G . LAKSHYA RUBI

CLASS : XII
ROLL NO :
SPACE CENTRAL SCHOOL, SHRIHARIKOTA
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude and sincere thanks to my teachers who helped me in this project
work .
I shall be failing in my duty if I do not express my gratitude to Mr. B.V.N.Sagar and Mrs . Chitralekha who
has inspired and encouraged me throughout their venture .
My sincere thanks and gratefulness to Mr. Surendra Meher for his cooperation and assistance rendered to me
for this work.
- G.LAKSHYA RUBI
XII
INTRODUCTION
We touch things every day: a coffee cup, a car door, a computer

keyboard. Each time we do, it is likely that we leave behind our
unique signature—in our fingerprints.
No two people have exactly the same fingerprints. Even identical

twins, with identical DNA, have different fingerprints. This
uniqueness allows fingerprints to be used in all sorts of ways,
including for background checks, biometric security, mass disaster
identification, and of course, in criminal situations.
Fingerprint analysis has been used to identify suspects and solve

crimes for more than 100 years, and it remains an extremely
valuable tool for law enforcement. One of the most important uses
for fingerprints is to help investigators link one crime scene to
another involving the same person.
WHERE AND WHEN IS FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS
USED?
Fingerprints can be used in all sorts of ways:

Providing biometric security (for example, to control access to secure
areas or systems)
Identifying amnesia victims and unknown deceased (such as victims
of major disasters, if their fingerprints are on file)
Conducting background checks (including applications for
government employment, defense security clearance, concealed
weapon permits, etc.).
Fingerprints are especially important in the criminal justice realm.

Investigators and analysts can compare unknown prints collected from
a crime scene to the known prints of victims, witnesses and potential
suspects to assist in criminal cases.
For example :
• In the absence of DNA, fingerprints are used by the criminal justice
system to verify a convicted offender’s identity and track their
previous arrests and convictions, criminal tendencies, known
associates and other useful information.
• Officers of the court can also use these records to help make
decisions regarding a criminal’s sentence, probation, parole or
pardon.
The Objective : This experiment involves the various ways of
fingerprinting, and how they measure up to the most common
method of fingerprinting- bi-chromatic powder. The goal in this
experiment is to determine if the bi-chromatic powder will usually
work well on all surfaces.
Methods/Materials
The fingerprinting scale is the control in this experiment. The
surfaces that will be tested are a piece of painted wood, a soda can,
unfinished wood, computer paper, a piece of plastic, and a glass
bottle.
These surfaces will be tested with your
traditional bi-chromatic powder,
white powder,
magnetic powder,
fluorescent powder,
super glue with glue fuming process
.
, a dye stain process, and a Ninhydrin solution.
The various methods of fingerprinting will be performed on the various

surfaces, and then the resulting fingerprints will be examined and
matched to the fingerprinting scale
Results
The results of experiment very closely proved the hypothesis. The
bi-chromatic powder proved to actually obtain a 5 or above on all
the surfaces except the unfinished wood.
The 4 powders tested faired quite well in the experiment, usually

producing a 3 or above on the scale.
All of the other methods of fingerprinting proved to work best on

specific surfaces ; the super glue with glue fuming, dye stain process,
and the Ninhydrin solution.
Conclusions/Discussion
In this experiment; the hypothesis was very closely proved through
the analysis of data. Yet, these answers happened for a reason. All
the powders worked fairly well, because they are attracted to the
moisture within the print.
The bi-chromatic black is basic, therefore working well on most
materials.
The white powder will work best on a dark surface or on a clear
surface. The Fluorescent powder is best to use on electronic items or
things that we do not want to be ruined, such as expensive items- it
is only visible with an alternate light source.
Finally the Ninhydrin works the best on paper, and most often
produces a perfect print; it stains the amino acids that were set onto
the paper with the application of the fingerprint.
This project is about all the different types of methods tested on

assorted materials; to conclude which method is most reliable.

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Name : G . LAKSHYA RUBI

We touch things every day: a coffee cup, a car door, a computer

No two people have exactly the same fingerprints. Even identical

Fingerprint analysis has been used to identify suspects and solve

Fingerprints can be used in all sorts of ways:

Fingerprints are especially important in the criminal justice realm.

The various methods of fingerprinting will be performed on the various

The 4 powders tested faired quite well in the experiment, usually

All of the other methods of fingerprinting proved to work best on

This project is about all the different types of methods tested on

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