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Distringuishing Cigarette Ash

DGMaher
in Chemistry

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Is it possible to distinguish different brands of cigarette ash due to its chemical composition? If so, what are the possible reaction tests?

  • 4 weeks later...

I would think that different cigarette brands would be best distinguished by their aroma compounds evolved during burning and subsequently run on GC/MS by either solvent extraction, SPME, SBSE or headspace analysis techniques, whereas the ash contents after burning based on ICP-OES or ICP-MS would best distinguish the growing/soil conditions of the tobacco and possibly the location where it was grown.

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