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US 4,359,353 AGranted
Polypeptides as chemical tagging materials
AssigneeHydrocarbon Research, Inc.
InventorPaul H. Kydd
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of tagging a substance to allow subsequent identification thereof comprising incorporating in the substance a polypeptide. Typically, the polypeptide is a synthetic polypeptide having a specific sequence of amino acids to constitute a particular molecular code which can be easily and readily identified.
Claims2
A composition comprising an explosive material and a polypeptide for retrospective identification of the explosive after detonation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.