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Smoke Testing - Mainstream - Carbon Monoxide
Understand the key constituents of cigarette smoke created once the tobacco is ignited. Mainstream smoke leaves the mouth end of the cigarette after it passes through the tobacco column and filter, and is inhaled by the smoker.
This range of tests provides data for the following constituents of mainstream smoke. Click on each substance tested for further information and interesting facts.
| Tar |
| Nicotine |
Carbon Monoxide This molecule was first produced by the French Chemist de Lassone in 1776 by heating zinc oxide with coke. He mistakenly concluded that it was hydrogen because it burned with a blue flame. The gas was identified as a compound containing carbon and oxygen fourteen years later by William Cumberland Cruikshank. It can be used to make synthetic jet fuel and purifying Nickel through the Mond Process. |
| Phenolic compounds |
| Carbonyls |
| Volatile organic compounds |
| Filter nicotine retention |
| Aromatic Amines |
| Pyridine |
| Quinolene |
| Styrene |
| Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines |
| Hydrogen Cyanide |
| Ammonia |
| Nitric Oxide |
| B[a]P |
| Metals |
| pH |
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