Etymology of the word/s Micro Coil (microcoil) for vaping…

Jerms;12067539 said:

On page one of this thread I was calling my mini coils micros. I used a larger bore because I wicked with German silica at the time. After realizing what I was making wasn't a true micro because of the diameter, I called them "almost micros" or "big-bore micros" until I decided mini coil would be a fitting and easy name.

That term does get used some, but I don't think it's caught on much outside ECF like Supe's term micro did. Instead, the big reviewers were calling any coil with touching wraps micros, even though they were much bigger than micros ever intended to be. What I don't understand is why people get upset when it's pointed out what they are calling micro is actually a mini or macro. None of the terms are derogatory, it's just categorizing by size.

Micro was named for a specific diameter range. Outside of that, it's just not a micro. If someone doesn't want to call their coils mini or macro that's fine, but outside of micro coil range isn't a micro coil, it's a coil.

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Jerms…your above statement is both TRUE and NOT TRUE. A problem.

And the folks still making videos with hand-over-hand winds calling them microcoils give me fits for baffling those trying to get things to work.

But it's not that to dismiss the use of the term for one size variant or another is derogatory, it's not accurate. Reviewers and many others have not focused on the purpose — the function of the coil — but its size.

I think the term microcoil in and of itself is woefully inadequate to accurately describe what we're chasing. And marvelously confusing.

A micro coil by super_x's initial description encompasses both size AND function, characteristically the substantial change in electron flow, cool operation, symmetrical propagation of heat, etc. what I described on some threads as "The Effect". The very reason the configuration is beneficial and practical. So in our language should we dismiss the objective, function, for size? The term mini on the other hand as applied to contact coils, a more apt name generally, is also dismissive of function as mini can merely imply miniaturized, a generic term which could include everything, including micros, in the range below 2mm.

Since the nomenclature is so ambiguous the consequences for the word "microcoil" have been its inappropriate and incorrect use. Or perhaps more importantly deterred many from appreciating the value of the geometry and adopting it for their own use. So what we call it is far less important than the benefit we may cause others to enjoy by understanding it.

To me the phrase contact micro coil is distinguishing of both size and function. It stimulates the curiosity and begs the question...And, what is contact?

But we on this forum no matter how adamantly we may insist upon it will not exclusively control the etymology of this reference. The public will, in either a state of misunderstanding about it, or clarity.

We may however be able to constructively influence the appreciation of what a microcoil actually is — by promoting a resolution of the word's ambiguity and resulting conundrum among its users.

Good luck.