Abstract:
The contents of total mercury(Hg) in various tobacco materials,such as cut tobacco,filter rod,packaging,flavor,and tipping paper,were determined by thermal decomposition and cold atomic absorption spectrometry.The results showed that:1) The recoveries of Hg were from 97.6% to 103.0% with the RSD of 0.59% to 2.47% and the limit of detection of 0.038
μg/kg in the span of 0 to 1000
μg/L.2) The directly measured results were slightly higher than those found in digested samples;and not obviously different from those by digestion-atomic fluorescence spectrometry.3) The contents of total Hg in tested samples were in the range of 0.48 to 97.16
μg/kg.The method is suitable for fast analysis of total Hg in batches of tobacco material samples.