title: Magnetic particulate matters in the ashes of few commonly used Indian cigarettes.
abstract: Physical aspects of tobacco samples, used in some commonly available Indian brands of cigarettes, with emphasis on their magnetic characterization before and after they get burnt into ashes, are described. The present work highlights the ultrafine nature of the cigarette ashes and provides a compositional insight of their constituent particulate matters as revealed by the XRD and SEM studies. Based on the EDX spectra, elemental distributions of different tobacco samples, before and after they get burnt, are presented. In this work, magnetic measurements of the un-burnt tobacco samples are reported. An attempt is made to shed light on the origin of magnetism observed in these samples.
authors: Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, ashis.bhattacharjee@visva-bharati.ac.in.
authors: Ashis
authors: A
authors: Bhattacharjee
authors: Haradhan
authors: H
authors: Mandal
authors: Madhusudan
authors: M
authors: Roy
authors: Joachim
authors: J
authors: Kusz
authors: Maciej
authors: M
authors: Zubko
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000032:analysis*; D060328:Magnetic Phenomena; D008280:Magnetics; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis*; D062789:Tobacco Products / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances; D052638:Particulate Matter