CORESTA Meeting, Smoke/Technology, Hamburg, 1997, ST42
Determination of talc in pulp and cigarette paper samples by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR)
Papierfabrik Wattens GmbH, Wattens, Austria.
Talc is added in pulp and/or cigarette paper production as a rosin adsorbent. Talc can therefore be considered as one of the major mineral impurities in pulps. As talc is covered with the rosin, the amount of talc also correlates with the remaining...