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Tackifier

Solid resins added to the adhesive base polymer to impart the necessary tack and adhesion

Committee

Trace Materials

Date Added to Lexicon

06/12/2023

Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)

ANSI/ASTM E3085-17 Standard Guide for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in Forensic Tape Examinations. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2017. Source link

Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org