Forger Caught by Rheology of Biopolymer Gum Arabic
Gum arabic, a sap harvested from acacia trees, is a very useful biopolymer due to its physical and chemical properties. The forgeries and murders committed by Mark Hofmann in the 1980s have been dragged back into the cultural spotlight by a recent Netflix/BBC documentary. [1] Hofmann counterfeited an amazing breadth of documents supposedly written by […]