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English translation: puffed tobacco


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German term or phrase:Blähtabak
English translation:puffed tobacco
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21:18 Nov 6, 2006
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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Tabak
German term or phrase: Blähtabak
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Wir verwenden für unsere Tabakmischung ausschließlich hochwertige Tabakblätter, auch keine Blattrippen, keine Folientabake und keine ***Blähtabake***.
ingheck
Local time: 00:28
"puffed" tobacco
Explanation:
Or expanded tobacco. Just a guess.

Whole tobacco can also be processed into a product called Expanded tobacco. The tobacco "puffed", or expanded, by saturating it with Supercritical carbon dioxide and heating the CO2 saturated tobacco to quickly evaporate the CO2. This quick chance of physical state by the CO2 cause the tobacco to expand in a similar fashion as Polystyrene foam. This is used to produce light cigarettes by reducing the density of the tobacco and thus maintain the size of a cigarette while reducing the amount of tobacco used in each cigarette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette


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Note added at 14 mins (2006-11-06 21:32:50 GMT)
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The Best Tobacco Makes The Best Cigarette
Kentucky’s Best cigarettes are made with top quality whole-leaf tobacco. Around here, we refuse to use dust, puffed tobacco or reconstituted tobacco. Other companies may call that stuff their “profit margin” – we call it trash.

http://www.farmerstobacco.com/products/index.html
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"puffed" tobacco


Explanation:
Or expanded tobacco. Just a guess.

Whole tobacco can also be processed into a product called Expanded tobacco. The tobacco "puffed", or expanded, by saturating it with Supercritical carbon dioxide and heating the CO2 saturated tobacco to quickly evaporate the CO2. This quick chance of physical state by the CO2 cause the tobacco to expand in a similar fashion as Polystyrene foam. This is used to produce light cigarettes by reducing the density of the tobacco and thus maintain the size of a cigarette while reducing the amount of tobacco used in each cigarette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette


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Note added at 14 mins (2006-11-06 21:32:50 GMT)
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The Best Tobacco Makes The Best Cigarette
Kentucky’s Best cigarettes are made with top quality whole-leaf tobacco. Around here, we refuse to use dust, puffed tobacco or reconstituted tobacco. Other companies may call that stuff their “profit margin” – we call it trash.

http://www.farmerstobacco.com/products/index.html


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 17:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Danke sehr, Kim!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi Kim, hört sich gut an. Mein Text schließt nämlich auch "reconstituted tobacco" (= Folientabak) aus und betont auch den "top quality whole-leaf tobacco" Aspekt. Ist aber nicht für Kentucky.

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Nov 7, 2006 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
FieldOther => Tech/Engineering


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