Cocaine in Money - Lab Report Example

The experiment has guided the case of Mr. Willie, Jones after he was accused of carrying cocaine-contaminated money. He was acquitted later though (Hayes, 1993). The tests are conducted using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Gas chromatography will be essential in separating the complex compounds. Mass spectrometry will be used to identify the structural components of the separated compounds, therefore, telling which compounds they are. This method is precise and will give very viable information.

GC is good in isolating but not identifying whilst MC is good in identifying but cannot isolate. Samples are collected from ten students. In order to have a representative sample, ten students from ten different geographical locations (cities) will be asked to produce one-dollar bills for the experiment. It will be exciting to find out the level of contamination if any, of notes from the different places. The experiment can comically be used to indicate the rate of drug abuse from the students’ backgrounds, on the basis of lowest to highest amongst the ten!