Sentence examples for test for traces from inspiring English sources

Similar instruments have been used to test for traces of gas in seawater.

"We're moving and testing boxes to test for traces of anthrax as a precautionary measure," said Sandra Carroll, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. in Newark.

"They can test for traces of explosive or any sort of shrapnel, if it was a high-speed forceful impact, which is what it looks like because the pieces are small and shredded," he said.

In 1997, for example, after exterminators in Pascagoula, Miss., sprayed a powerful agricultural insecticide, methyl parathion -- which Dr. Jackson described as a "junior strength nerve agent" -- in hundreds of homes, experts at the federal laboratory huddled for four days and nights until they came up with a reliable urine test for traces of breakdown products of the chemical.

The researchers then cut a lock of hair from about a quarter of those surveyed to test for traces of bath salts.

The field tests came back positive for methamphetamine, but the narcotics officers knew something else was going on, so they sent for a private contractor to test for traces of scheduled compounds.

He also appreciates the support that Nadal gave him during the most difficult phase of his professional career: his provisional suspension from the tour in 2009 after a positive test for trace amounts of cocaine.

Being diligent, the team later ordered toxicology screening including a test for trace elements in the tissues, blood, bone, and hair.

In a recent interlaboratory study of commercial laboratories that specifically market the test for trace metals in hair, interlaboratory agreement was judged very poor, with wide discrepancies observed for Pb as well as for other elements (Seidel et al. 2001).

But if you use a stick blender, it will trace within 10 min. To test for trace, dip a spatula or spoon into the mix and dribble a bit of it back into the pot.

Drug paraphernalia found in her bedsit will also be tested for traces of DNA.