It's hard to imagine that we're selling a product called synthesis. "A lot of people are staring at you with a strange look," said Edward Uy, vice president of Sqn, the first electronic cigarette company to launch a laboratory synthesis of nicotine fumes.

"Any other tobacco product in human history, including every electronic cigarette oil that can actually be seen, is the natural nicotine extracted from tobacco plants," he said.

Synthetic nicotine has the same molecular formula as natural nicotine, but as an additive, it may not be included in the August FDA's electronic smoke regulations.

That's why Ron Tully started the next generation of labs, a small company that provides "tobacco-free nicotine" to an electronic cigarette-oil company like Sqn.

The next-generation lab is not the first company to produce synthetic nicotine, but it seems to be the first company to target the electronic cigarette market. Tully says synthetic nicotine tastes great in electronic fumes, as if it doesn't taste good. From tobacco, it seems that there is still a smell of plants, and electronic cigarette makers will use sweeteners or a stronger taste to cover them.

The taste of Sweets is a basic pop flavor. This is no coincidence. The disadvantage of synthetic nicotine is the high cost. Sqn the next-generation lab's synthetic nicotine in three production lines-nktr, nktr sour and Melt,uy say it costs 13 times times the same amount of natural nicotine.

After all, tobacco plants are good at producing nicotine after centuries of nurturing. Swiss chemist Amépictet The first time in 1904 to synthesize nicotine in the laboratory, but his refining process is just as small as many others. The process of extracting nicotine from Pictet involves heating the pipe until it becomes flushed and hot. When Tully opened the next-generation lab, a team spent two years calculating how to expand the process. The final synthesis consists of 4 important steps, which take about a week, and many steps involve heating and cooling to optimize the response.

Tully declined to disclose the details of the synthesis, saying it was still waiting for 3 patents.