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What are stable isotopes? -- Natural abundance variation of stable isotopes -- Chemically identical and yet not the same -- Isotope effects, mass discrimination, and isotopic fractionation -- Stable isotopic distribution and isotopic fractionation of light elements in nature -- Stable isotope forensics in everyday life -- Set problems -- Mass spectrometry v. isotope ratio mass spectrometry -- Instrumentation and ?-notation -- Isotopic calibration and quality control in CF-IRMS -- Statistical analysis of stable isotope data within a forensic context -- Forensic stable isotope analytical procedures -- Generic considerations for stable isotope analysis -- Set problems -- The forensic context -- Distinguishing drugs -- Elucidating explosives -- Matching matchsticks -- Provenancing people -- Stable isotope forensics of other physical evidence.