English term
carpet-fiber spectrographs
"Better get your spray bottle at the ready in case I start rolling on a pile of carpet-fiber spectrographs"
Spectrographs is an epuipment to record photos, right? So it should be photos of evidences? How does it have anything to do with carpet-fiber? and spray bottle???
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| 4 +4 | printouts of spectrograms of carpet fibers |
Tony M
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Oct 20, 2015 17:28: Tony M changed "Field (specific)" from "Poetry & Literature" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
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printouts of spectrograms of carpet fibers
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Note added at 7 minutes (2015-10-20 17:32:46 GMT)
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It is not unusual in forensic examinations of crime scenes to do a spectrograph analysis of things like fibers from carpets — perhaps to identify what the carpet is made of so it can be linked to a certain location; or to discover what other substances might have got onto the carpet, like drugs etc.
So you need to think of this as just 'a pile of some kind of technically-relevant papers that might be found in the lab.'
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Note added at 10 minutes (2015-10-20 17:35:47 GMT)
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The detective's friend suggests that all these piles of evidence are like catnip — a stimulant that cats love; so the detective carries on in the same vein, as if her friend had suggested she were a cat; now a playful cat might well start a game of rolling around on a pile of papers!
And the spray-bottle — well, I assume it is the sort of water spray ione might use to (harmlessly) drive away a cat that got into your garden for example; people often use kids' water-pistols, but of course a spray-bottl is something that would be more likely to be readily to hand in a lab.
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Note added at 11 minutes (2015-10-20 17:36:42 GMT)
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So I think she's saying "You're suggesting I'm like a cat, so watch out in case I start behaving like one!"
It's all very flippant imagery, not to be taken in any way literally.
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Note added at 57 minutes (2015-10-20 18:22:22 GMT)
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Comes from watching too much CSI ;-)
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