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Tobacco Testing - Ammonia
Tobacco is a commodity of fascinating complexity. This range of tests will allow you to better understand the series of components which make up processed tobacco and are applicable to tobacco from cigarettes, cigars or Roll-Your-Own products.
The components of tobacco can be understood from the range of tests found below. Click on each substance tested for further information and interesting facts.
| Nicotine |
| Alkaloids |
Ammonia Joseph Priestly first isolated gaseous ammonia in 1774 which he called ‘alkaline air’. In 1785, Claude Louis Berthollet determined its composition. |
| pH, moisture & density |
| Tobacco specific nitrosamines |
| Metals |
| Nitrate |
| B[a]P |
| Humectants |
| Triacetin |
| Sodium propionate |
| Sorbic acid |
| Menthol |
| Eugenol |
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