Do you know whats IN that A quantitative test for the amount of ammonia and nicotine in cigarettes

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Do you know whats IN that?!A quantitative
test for the amount of ammonia and nicotine in
cigarettes
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Purpose

• To determine if Marlboro cigarettes contained
  more ammonia than another brand.

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Why??

• In the 1970s the Marlboro company began to put
  excess ammonia into theircigarettes.
• This alters the amount of nicotine available to
  the smoker.

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So then.

• I decided to test a Marlboro cigarette...

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• Against a Kamel Red.

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How????

• A solute had to be chosen.
• A soxhlet extractor was used to extract the
  soluble material.
• A roto-vapor was then used to extract the
  remaining chloroform.
• The remaining solid was then weighed.

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Then.

• The solid that was obtained had to be tested in
  an NMR, to determine what it was that I actually
  had extracted.

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Sowhat came of all of this?

• The NMR results showed that I did extract
  nicotine (along with some other things) from the
  cigarettes.
• Therefore the the numbers that I calculated from
  the crude material were significant.

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Results...

• The Marlboro cigarettes showed 8 weight of
  crude material
• The Kamel Reds showed 6.25 weight
• Because the ammonia changes the amount of
  nicotine available, more nicotine should indicate
  more ammonia

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So

• My results show that the Marlboros STILL contain
  more ammonia.

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If I had knownOther things I might have done,

• Use the smoking machine to trap the inhaled
  smoke, change this to a liquid and test the pH.
• Other methods of separation tlc or column
  chromatography with known substances
• Colorimetry
• Try to extract just the ammonia.

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References

• British Ministry of Health
• Journal of Chemical Education
• Haifa University The School of Education of
  the Kibbutz Movement- Kiryat Tivon, Israel
• The American Chemical Society