Freezing Concern

[Edwin Betz]

I am getting ready to store a good amount of 100mg 50/50 nicotine base in 4oz amber glass bottles with poly cone caps in my freezer.

I have one major concern, should I be worried about this expansion when freezing this concentration? I don't want to have 24 cracked 4oz bottles of 100mg nicotine in my freezer. There is 120ml in each 4oz bottle.

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[440BB]

PG and VG contract a bit in freezing temps, the opposite of water. You should be fine.

 

[bwh79]

The property of expanding when frozen is unique to water. Most substances continue to contract when cooled. Something like a beer or soda pop only explodes in the freezer ‘cause it is mostly water, but the minuscule amount that might be in your nic base shouldn’t be a problem.

 

[Dubminer]

Also pg or vg does not freeze in the freezer,it just gets thicker.

 

[rob33]

The freezing temperature of PG is around -70F and VG is near -60F unless you have a really good freezer you'll be fine.

 

[Edwin Betz]

Thanks everyone. Now that that's cleared up I can go ahead and box it up and put it in the freezer!

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[classwife]

Moved this to DIY e-liquid from General e-liquid Discussion

 

[stols001]

Glad you found your answer. I have never once had a problem with freezing nic in glass, although I do make sure nothing heavy from elsewhere in the freezer, the husband and I had to negotiate the compartments. But, nic (in PG, VG and both) will remain liquid, just very very thick liquid.

Best of luck,

Anna