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Tobacco Testing - pH Moisture & Density

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

pH, moisture & density

Tobacco Density
The mass per unit of volume for the processed tobacco product.
Moisture content
The quantity of water contained within a material. This is usually measured by determining the weight loss after drying at 105°C.
pH
pH, standing for "power of hydrogen", was first introduced by Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Larboratory in 1909. pH describes the negative logarithm of the concentration of hydrogen ions in solution.

Tobacco specific nitrosamines

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