If you wanna worry about something worry about diacetyl . I have no concern with organic cotton.
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Vaping cotton is dangerous for health?
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If cotton is somehow reaching 400 degrees on a standard type of device including rda's, you have run out of liquid, or have a very bad set up..
If you ever experienced vaping and tasted something other than your flavored e liquid, you would soon learn how to stop that annoyance.
Anyone can abuse anything these days and come up with undesirable harmful results, and publish them as propaganda for an agenda.
I'm not saying that is what you are doing though. This industry currently is sending out only silica with its devices and not cotton. Cotton is for advanced vapers and is only experimental so to speak. It has its good intended uses, but it also can be abused by people with no brains.
If you ever experienced vaping and tasted something other than your flavored e liquid, you would soon learn how to stop that annoyance.
Anyone can abuse anything these days and come up with undesirable harmful results, and publish them as propaganda for an agenda.
I'm not saying that is what you are doing though. This industry currently is sending out only silica with its devices and not cotton. Cotton is for advanced vapers and is only experimental so to speak. It has its good intended uses, but it also can be abused by people with no brains.
I use cotton wicks for 7-10 days and my wicks are no where close to this black and usually mine are dark just over the coil.
Dude have you ever seen pics of burned up Silica wicks. Let me tell you I would rather have Cotton particles then silica particles anytime. Silica is bad news. Just wick your coils right, and keep it all clean and you will have no worries.
From my observations, when I leave my atomizer coils to soak and clean out, when the time comes to rewick, and I go to take out the old wick, the wicks are usually white!
So before deciding that it is a chemical process causing your cotton to turn black, try soaking in hot water a few times to see if it cleans out and turns white.
If it turns white, then it looks like a physical stain, and not a chemical change of the cotton.
I'm sure many of use have experienced when using the same coil over long periods in a bottom coil clearo, without rinsing out the tank, the residual liquid keeps getting darker and darker apparently from something in the flavor.
My belief is the darker and darker comes from metal content in the flavorings; most likely iron most of the time.
There is another factor to consider with cotton though;
Just as cinnamon or citrus are known to react with plastics, I suppose there are going to be some flavors that might react chemically with cotton....
I suppose...
Just as cinnamon or citrus are known to react with plastics, I suppose there are going to be some flavors that might react chemically with cotton....
I suppose...
Cotton isn't getting vaped, as long as it stays wet in a proper build it will not burn or discolor, it's simply a carrier for the juice to get to the coil.
I can and have run a pg/vg/nic juice mix with nothing else added through it for weeks with no discoloration. What builds up is additives in the juice and even then with most harsh juices if it has not burned due to being juice starved it can be rinsed and be white again even in the coil area.
On the flip side of that I've had some juices, usually dark and/or sweet juices that build up so much after only a 1/2 tank that you can't even see the wick in it and it's unvapable.
I can and have run a pg/vg/nic juice mix with nothing else added through it for weeks with no discoloration. What builds up is additives in the juice and even then with most harsh juices if it has not burned due to being juice starved it can be rinsed and be white again even in the coil area.
On the flip side of that I've had some juices, usually dark and/or sweet juices that build up so much after only a 1/2 tank that you can't even see the wick in it and it's unvapable.
This is a pretty goofey topic. An analog smoker uses probably an once of tobacco per week. Even if the is slight cotton burning, it's probably not more than 0.1 grams per week. I'll take my chances. Silica, on the other hand... not sure I want 0.1grams of it in my lungs at all... besides, cotton tastes sooo much better!
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i never said anything about "cotton particles" and i see a lot of talk of "inhaling Silica particles" but no one wishes to share a link to a study that would even suggest we are inhaling silica particles. cant seem to find anything that would suggest we are inhaling silica particles.
thats not a study that is some guy on ECF.. that user is not a scientist nor did he conduct any hands on research. its complete conjecture and the fact that he didn't know that the wick we use is amorphous silica tells me he did very little or no research.
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Where are the peer reviewed studies for any of these materials? I see a lot of assumptions being thrown around... and as that ole' saying goes
all of the studies we have right now are done on off the shelf ready to vape items that use silica for wick or cartomizers. no large scale vendors are currently offering cotton as a wicking maternal. here is a link for a number of studies done on off the self vape gear. Lab Reports: ecigarettes
now this is gold http://www.ecigarette-research.com/...-and-nanoparticles-in-e-cigarettes-commentary
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"no large scale vendors are currently offering cotton as a wicking material"
That strikes me as a curious statement.
I've never heard anyone suggesting or expecting any vendor to use cotton as a wicking material.
People DIY their own wick with cotton in the same way that people DIY their own eliquid using glycerin from the pharmacy, wallmart etc.
If people could buy silica wick off the shelf, more people probably would.
While i don't agree with the general argument in the thread, and am happily vaping a Tugboat filled with cotton... I think his point was that no testing has been done on cotton, because it's not the wick found in off the shelf products. The argument being that testers are only testing off the shelf products, as there are too many variables in a DIY type setting. Be it e-liquid or wicking materials.
Yes no testing has been done with cotton.
No testing Will be done with cotton either; certainly not by any large scale vendor;
The notion seems far out;
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