Help with adding nic math

[rjd66]

Hello,

I have a 30ml bottle of 3mg juice and want to make it 6mg. My nicotine strength is 48mg.

For the life of me I can not figure out the math to do this. I am not worried about losing flavor just getting a bit more out of what I already have until I can order more next week without going to the vape shop to order a 6mg bottle that will cost a lot more.

Any exact measurements and maybe how the math was done so I know for the future in case I have to do it again.

 

[SteveS45]

Use one of these calculators.

Do It Yourself E-Liquid (E-Juice) Recipe Mixing Station!

 

[Cf11]

Since your current juice is 3mg/ml and 30ml. That means it has [3x30=90mg] nicotine total. You want it to be 6mg/ml in a 30ml bottle, so that'll be [6x30=180mg] of nic total. Now you need to add 90mg more to the the previously 3mg and 30ml bottle and you have 48mg/ml nic. So clearly you need to add [90/48=1.875ml] of your 48mg nicotine.
HTH.

PS - just in case you don't understand anything that I've typed because of the way I've typed it, just add 1.8 ml of your 48mg nic and you'll be good to go.

 

[bombastinator]

It's going to be somewhere near 3ml i think. exact numbers are beyond my powers of grade school fractions, but because you're going to double the potency an off the cuff solution is kind of possible.

This only works if you don't actually need exactly 6mg. if reasonably close is OK and you have a tolerance for really dirty math you can do it like this:

we'll call your 48mg half of 100mg ie if you take 100 mg and double the volume with base you get 50mg.
So double again you get 25mg, double again 17.5mg. double again ~8mg and one more time is 4mg which is more or less what you got. Now if you do it backwards (halving you 30ml) you get ~3mg of half 100 mg jice added to your 3mg juice to double its potency.

 

[bombastinator]

Since your current juice is 3mg/ml and 30ml. That means it has [3x30=90mg] nicotine total. You want it to be 6mg/ml in a 30ml bottle, so that'll be [6x30=180mg] of nic total. Now you need to add 90mg more to the the previously 3mg and 30ml bottle and you have 48mg/ml nic. So clearly you need to add [90/48=1.8ml] of your 48mg nicotine.
HTH.

PS - just in case you don't understand anything that I've typed because of the way I've typed it, just add 1.8 ml of your 48mg nic and you'll be good to go.

I trust this answer more than my answer.

 

[Cf11]

It's going to be somewhere near 3ml i think. exact numbers are beyond my powers of grade school fractions, but because you're going to double the potency an off the cuff solution is kind of possible.

This only works if you don't actually need exactly 6mg. if reasonably close is OK and you have a tolerance for really dirty math you can do it like this:

we'll call your 48mg half of 100mg ie if you take 100 mg and double the volume with base you get 50mg.
So double again you get 25mg, double again 17.5mg. double again ~8mg and one more time is 4mg which is more or less what you got. Now if you do it backwards (halving you 30ml) you get ~3mg of half 100 mg jice added to your 3mg juice to double its potency.

That's a really interesting way to calculate it! I like how you approached the problem even without the "powers of grade school fractions".

 

[bombastinator]

That's a really interesting way to calculate it! I like how you approached the problem even without the "powers of grade school fractions".

It has the advantage that it requires no actual measuring devices, just two containers the same size. It's also not particularly accurate, as was shown. I never said my powers of grade school fractions were any good. I'm a wombat after all. I got a brain the size of a walnut and I can't pick my nose without hurting myself.
Actually it's how I mix juice most of the time because graduated cylinders are a pain to wash.

 

[rjd66]

Thank you everyone for your help and the explanation to help me understand the process behind how it works.

Going to help me stretch some not so good juice until I can get the items it mix up another big batch.