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A new simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of nicotine is described. The method is based on the bromination of nicotine to form dibromonicotine which reacts with potassium iodide to liberate iodine. The iodine liberated then selectively oxidizes leuco crystal violet, and the crystal violet dye formed shows maximum absorbance at 592 nm. Beer's law is obeyed over the concentration range 0.2 μg–2.2 μg of nicotine in a final solution volume of 25 mL (0.008–0.088 ppm). The molar absorptivity of the colour system is 1.40 × 106 1 mol−1 cm−1. The method is free from the interference of other major toxicants. The various analytical parameters were optimized, and the method was applied for the determination of nicotine in cigarette smoke, food, and biological samples.

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Theoretical investigation of different physical parameters of Cr4AlB6 have been done within the framework of density functional theory. Cr4AlB6 is a no band gap material. Its Cr‐3d states contributes the most at the Fermi level. Thermal properties are investigated using quasi‐harmonic Debye model as implemented in Gibbs code for different values of pressure and temperature. Study of transport property suggests that its electrical conductivity increases nonlinearly with increase in temperature but the relative change in its value is very low whereas its thermal conductivity increases linearly with the increase in temperature and relative increase in thermal conductivity is very high. The behavior of Cr4AlB6 is anisotropic and property is ceramic. It has potential applications in making ceramic capacitors. Its reflectivity is high in low energy region. It suggests that material can be used as coating material for far‐infrared radiation. Study of the transport property suggests that because of very high value of thermal conductivity, it can be used for heat sink applications.