Scenario
I've made 100 ml of e-liquid with 9mg/ml nicotine and 4% flavoring, and it's too itchy in my throat, I think there's too much nicotine.
I'd like to reduce the nicotine concentration to 6mg/ml. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
Explication
We learned in a previous article that to calculate the concentration of an e-liquid,
we divide the amount of nicotine by the total amount of e-liquid.
In our case, we want to reduce the concentration, so we'll add a certain amount of base to the total e-liquid to dilute the final nicotine concentration.
Here's the equation used in our scenario:
We just need to isolate x like the following :
You therefore need to add 50 ml of base to reduce the nicotine concentration from 9mg/ml to 6mg/ml.
However, don't forget that adding just the base will also dilute the flavor concentration.
To do this, if we want to maintain the 4% concentration of aroma, we add some base which has 0% flavoring.
Except that, since the base has no nicotine, we can remove 4% from the base and replace it with 4% flavoring,
thus obtaining 100 ml of the current e-liquid with 4% flavouring + 50 ml of 0mg/ml e-liquid with 4% flavoring.
The flavour concentration is therefore maintained. And that's it!
Finally, in our case, we need to add 50 ml of base, including 4% flavoring.
- 50 ml * 0.04 = 2 ml of aroma
- 50 ml - 2 ml = 48 ml of base
Okay, perfect, we can fill the bottle with our informations.
Darn!
Our flask is only 120 ml and we need to add 50 ml. We're going to overflow...
Do I have a bigger bottle?
No...
So now I've got to find the minimum concentration I can achieve without overflowing my bottle.
Well, I don't feel like doing any more calculations, so I'll try it out using the calculator
(Sorry for the image quality, animated gif have low quality)
It was actually simpler this way! You know you can only go down to 7.5mg/ml unless you find a slightly larger bottle.
If you too would like to use this calculator to simplify your life, don't hesitate, it's over here Eliquid.diy
I've made 100 ml of e-liquid with 9mg/ml nicotine and 4% flavoring, and it's too itchy in my throat, I think there's too much nicotine.
I'd like to reduce the nicotine concentration to 6mg/ml. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
Explication
We learned in a previous article that to calculate the concentration of an e-liquid,
we divide the amount of nicotine by the total amount of e-liquid.
In our case, we want to reduce the concentration, so we'll add a certain amount of base to the total e-liquid to dilute the final nicotine concentration.
Here's the equation used in our scenario:
We just need to isolate x like the following :
You therefore need to add 50 ml of base to reduce the nicotine concentration from 9mg/ml to 6mg/ml.
However, don't forget that adding just the base will also dilute the flavor concentration.
To do this, if we want to maintain the 4% concentration of aroma, we add some base which has 0% flavoring.
Except that, since the base has no nicotine, we can remove 4% from the base and replace it with 4% flavoring,
thus obtaining 100 ml of the current e-liquid with 4% flavouring + 50 ml of 0mg/ml e-liquid with 4% flavoring.
The flavour concentration is therefore maintained. And that's it!
Finally, in our case, we need to add 50 ml of base, including 4% flavoring.
- 50 ml * 0.04 = 2 ml of aroma
- 50 ml - 2 ml = 48 ml of base
Okay, perfect, we can fill the bottle with our informations.
Darn!
Our flask is only 120 ml and we need to add 50 ml. We're going to overflow...
Do I have a bigger bottle?
No...
So now I've got to find the minimum concentration I can achieve without overflowing my bottle.
Well, I don't feel like doing any more calculations, so I'll try it out using the calculator
(Sorry for the image quality, animated gif have low quality)
It was actually simpler this way! You know you can only go down to 7.5mg/ml unless you find a slightly larger bottle.
If you too would like to use this calculator to simplify your life, don't hesitate, it's over here Eliquid.diy
