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A rise in the tempera-
present in the highest concentration is ture of the smoke also accelerates sorption
methane, known also as the product of dry of these compounds by the meat being
distillation of wood. Much larger is the smoked.
group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons The quantity of different smoke compo-
(PAH) identified in numerous investigations nents accumulated in the meat depends on
(Obiedzin´ ski and Borys 1977). Some smoked the temperature, humidity, agitation, and
products contain up to 100 different PAH and composition of the smoke; the properties of
their alkylated derivatives, of molecular the components, particularly their volatility
weights from 116 (indene) to 302 (dibenzo- and solubility; the characteristics of the
pyrenes). They are generated at temperatures surface of the product; and the duration of
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