Forensic Discrimination Potential of Blue, Black, Green, and Red Colored Fountain Pen Inks Commercially Used in Pakistan, by UV/Visible Spectroscopy, Thin Layer Chromatography, and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

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Discriminating power of blue, black, green and red fountain pen inks using TLC.

Color of Fountain Pen ink	n= total no. of samples	Total no. of pairs= n(n-1)/2	Discriminating pairs (total no.)	Non Discriminating pairs (total no.)	D.P=no. of discriminating pairs/ Total no. of pairs
Blue	6	65/2=15	BL1,BL2; BL1,BL4; BL1,BL6;BL2,BL3;BL2,BL4;BL2,BL5;BL2,BL6;BL3,BL4; BL3,BL6;BL4,BL5;BL4,BL6;BL5,BL6 (12)	BL1, BL3; BL1,BL5; BL3,BL5 (3)	12/15=0.80
Black	6	65/2=15	BK1,BK2;BK1,BK3;BK1,BK4; BK1,BK5;BK1,BK6;BK2,BK3;BK2,BK4;BK2,BK5;BK2, BK6;BK3,BK4;BK3,BK5;BK3,BK6;BK4,BK5;BK4,BK6; BK5,BK6 (15)	None (0)	15/15=1
Green	4	43/2=6	GN1,GN2;GN1,GN3;GN1,GN4;GN2,GN3;GN2,GN4;GN3, GN4 (6)	None (0)	6/6=1
Red	2	21/2=1	RD1,RD2 (1)	None (0)	1/1=1