A paraffin test, for instance, would probably show that Nystrom Three hadn't been shooting any guns lately.

A paraffin test would prove it one way or the other.

The paraffin test showed that his finger had pulled the trigger.

A Mexican cop invented the paraffin test for powder nitrates.

And a paraffin test of the hand ought to show he didn't fire the gun at all.

The perfume on the jigs' hands skunked a late paraffin test.

"The paraffin test taken Saturday night revealed no traces of gunpowder on my client's hands."

His prints weren't on the gun, and there was no evidence that paraffin tests tying him to the revolver had been performed.

When I had the coroner give him a paraffin test and learned there were powder burns..." She let it hang.