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CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION (YEAR-2015-16)
Project report on
SUBMITTED
Saksham Gupta
Singh
Mr. Hardeep
Class XII F
Dept.
Roll no.-1644687
Chemistry
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my sincerest gratitude
and own a grave sense of thankfulness to
MR.HARDEEP SINGH BSP,Pilani for his
incommensurate, in documentation and
guidance which inspired me to undertake this
project.
I am also thankful to MR.V.K.SHARMA, MR.
SURENDRA MEHTA, MR.GYAN PRAKASH AND
MR.PREM without whose help the successful
completion of the project would not have been
possible.
Saksham
Gupta
XII F
CERTIFICATE
Mr. HARDEEP
SINGH
P.G.T, Chemistry
BIRLA SCHOOL
PILANI
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Aim
Introduction
Tobacco, the widely known drug is mainly present in
cigar, cigarette, beedi, suuff, etc. It belongs to the
family grown species are N rustica and N tobacco. One
of the harmful components of tobacco is Nicotine.
Nicotine is colorless volatile liquid. It boils at a
temperature of 246-247C and soluble in most solvents
including water. Pure nicotine is highly poisonous.It is
hygroscopic and distills over unchanged into steam. Aqueous
nicotine is strongly alkaline to litmus. It is easily soluble in
AIM
The Aim of investigation is two-fold:1. Two extract nicotine from tobacco.
2. To determine the percentage of nicotine
in various tobacco products and make a
comparison.
PROCEDURE
About 10 grams of tobacco was grounded properly and
taken in a conical flask. Then 10 ml of conc. NaOH was
Added to it. The contents were warmed on a low flame
and stirred vigorously. This process was continued till a
strong spell of tobacco has mixed with NaOH properly,
the contents were cooled to room temperature. The
contents then were transferred to room temperature.
Then they were transferred to a separating funnel,
which had already been washed, and about 15 ml of
ether was added. Later, the contents were stirred
gently to ensure complete mixing. Some time was
allowed to elapse till the ether layer separated from
rest of the contents. Then the bottom layer of NaOH
was removed and poured back into the conical flask.
The ether was taken in a beaker and placed in a boiling
water bath to allow the ether to evaporate. The
extracted nicotine was weighed and its percentage was
calculated accordingly.
APPARATUS AND
CHEMICALS
Apparatus:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Conical flask
Separation funnel
Water bath
Beaker
Funnel
Test tube
Chemicals:
1.
2.
3.
4.
NaOH(conc.)
Ether
HCL(conc.)
Tobacco sample
OBSERVATION
TABLE
Table-1
S.NO
Name of
Brand
1
2
Ganesh
Nevla
Color of PPT.
TABLE-2
S.NO NAME
OF
BRAND
1
2
Gane
sh
Nevl
Weight
Weight of
of
Tobacco
Nicotine
sample
%Of
Nicotine=
Weight of
Nicotine
Extracted
weight. Of
Tobacco
a
Hans
RESULT
Nicotine is successfully
extracted from various
tobacco samples and
percentage of nicotine is
calculated as follows:
Ganesh:Nevla:Hans:-
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Investigation projects
in chemistry by
A.Chakrabotry Tata Mc
Graw Hill Pulication.
Practical chemistry by
R.C. Khanna,
J.P.Publications