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Magneto-Optical Sensors

A fragment from a magneto-optical sensor, originally developed for medical purposes, reveals an obliterated serial number on a gun when viewed through a polarized filter — Johnson County Criminalistics Laboratory, Kansas (see reuse policy).

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