Determination of the Tobacco Humidity: Comparison of the Azeotropic Benzene Distillation with Oven Drying / Zur Bestimmung der Feuchtigkeit im Tabak: Vergleich zwischen der Azeotropen Destillation mit Benzol und der Trocknung im Ofen
et | 28 mai 2014
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Publié en ligne: 28 mai 2014
Pages: 342 - 345
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cttr-2013-0044
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Two methods of determination of the tobacco humidity - oven drying and azeotropic distillation with benzene - have been compared. The precision of the latter method had been formerly established on a model system of paper plus added water; it is shown that the precision is the same when the method is applied on tobacco.