Abstract:
Tobacco (nicotinarustica ) contains a chemical called nicotine. Which is
an addictive substance.
This study was conducted to determine the percentage of nicotine in a
sample of tobacco (nicotinarustica), where the sample collected from the
stores of tobacco dealers in Omdurman. Soxhlet devicewas used to
extract nicotine from the sample. And it has been used IR device for
detecting the identity of nicotine extract. Also been using UVdevice and
device HPLC to determine the percentage of nicotine in the tobacco
sample, It was found that the ratio of 5.25% and 5.398% respectively.
