At its heart, they said, was the revolutionary science that had improbably traced the attack powder to a single flask.
From the kentucky.com
In trying to prove that a sample Ivins provided from his flask in April 2002 was deceptive because it contained none of the morphs from the attack powder, investigators sampled the flask 30 times.
From the kentucky.com
Tests on those samples didn't display the telltale genetic variants later found in the attack powder and in sampling from Ivins'Dugway flask.
From the kentucky.com
The powder is added to a flask, combined with a solvent, and strapped to an oscillating platform called a Belly Dancer that gently swirls the mixture for 24 hours.
From the newsweek.com
Later, investigators would take their own samples from the flask and find four morphs that matched those in the powder.
From the kentucky.com
Based on the testing, the FBI concluded that flask RMR-1029 was the parent material of the anthrax spore powder.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Seven years later, prosecutors announced that they were certain the attack powder had been grown with germs from the Dugway flask Ivins was offering for scrutiny.