, 8.000, 94930-000 Cachoeirinha -RS, BrasilRecebido em 22/9/09; aceito em 30/11/09, publicado na web em 8/4/10Traditionally, in the cigarettes industry, the determination of ammonium ion in the mainstream smoke is performed by ion chromatography. This work studies this determination and compares the results of this technique with the use of external and internal standard calibration. A reference cigarette sample presented measurement uncertainty of 2.0 mg/cigarette and 1.5 mg/cigarette, with external and internal standard, respectively. It is observed that the greatest source of uncertainty is the bias correction factor and that it is even more significant when using external standard, confirming thus the importance of internal standardization for this correction.

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