What creates the carbon build up when smoking? I am trying to identify the chemical in E-juices that creates the build up. If anyone has insight into the subject please let me know I am very curious.
Carbon Build Up
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The specific component that causes your coil to gunk up? I'm not sure anyone has it pinned down... but I can tell you sweeter or darker juices will gunk up alot faster than clear/lighter juices. Unless you are vaping pure distilled water, I'm sure anything that gets vaped will leave something behind. I think the miscellaneous flavor components are the big contributors to carbon buildup.
Your juices are mostly all based on carbon chemistry (organic) in one form or another, and that includes flavorings, PG, VG, and alcohol.
If you leave something in a cooking pan too long, it will char. Foods, for example, are also based on carbon chemistry and consist of a large number of different compounds, and they start to break down the moment you expose them to heat, only some compounds break down at much lower temperatures than others. The difference between sugar and butter in a pan is an example.
The coil in an atty or carto does get up to around 500 Degrees which is enough to break down almost anything which you are likely to vape. Organic chemistry is complex, and flavorings are complex compounds with complex molecules; so it becomes a mess to try to explain this any further.
My guess is that the culprit is the sugar, even if you don't think you have any. Artificial sweeteners are still various types of sugar.
It is about the briefest, non technical description that I can come up with.
If you leave something in a cooking pan too long, it will char. Foods, for example, are also based on carbon chemistry and consist of a large number of different compounds, and they start to break down the moment you expose them to heat, only some compounds break down at much lower temperatures than others. The difference between sugar and butter in a pan is an example.
The coil in an atty or carto does get up to around 500 Degrees which is enough to break down almost anything which you are likely to vape. Organic chemistry is complex, and flavorings are complex compounds with complex molecules; so it becomes a mess to try to explain this any further.
My guess is that the culprit is the sugar, even if you don't think you have any. Artificial sweeteners are still various types of sugar.
It is about the briefest, non technical description that I can come up with.
Thank you very much for all the information. It helped with my research very much
Possibly related - many find that juices that have particles of (flavoring or coloring?) sediment that are left behind will gunk up everything faster and at worst leave an accumulation of sludge and that sludge can bake and get black around the coil. A clear juice (even with a colored tint) may still be baking on the coil but seems to degrade cartomizers and atomizers more slowly, and can leave the cotton white as the juice recedes.
But I don't know what those particles are. Natural flavorings? Specific colorings? Many vanilla and chocolate/cocoa juices have particles. Fruits seem less likely to have particles. I've wondered if a juice with particles could be filtered (through coffee filter or tea paper etc) and still retain good flavor.
But I don't know what those particles are. Natural flavorings? Specific colorings? Many vanilla and chocolate/cocoa juices have particles. Fruits seem less likely to have particles. I've wondered if a juice with particles could be filtered (through coffee filter or tea paper etc) and still retain good flavor.
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