Thermal Analysis of Tobacco

Fri, 3 May 2002 10:48:55 +0100

Hello Roger.
I did some work ages ago for a major tobacco company (the one occasion I got
some money back from them, rather than handing it over!) on the oxidation
and ignition characteristics of tobacco and tobacco substitutes. This was
contract work, and wasn't published. We established conditions for a
reproducible experiment, which turned out to be similar in principle to
those used by Hans Wiedemann for his studies on ancient papyruses and woods.
In essence, you use as small a sample as possible, a low heating rate, and
be careful with platinum pans and their variable catalytic effect on
promoting the oxidation.
Best regards,
Steve Warrington
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