Trace metals analysis of legal and counterfeit cigarette tobacco samples using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 479-490

  Swami, Kamal ^a   Judd, Christopher D ^a   Orsini, John ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarettes; Counterfeit; CV atomic absorption spectrometry; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Mercury; Tobacco; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149102480     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010903267799     Document Type: Article

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