What happens to the vapor? Where does it go?

[smacuser]

Exhaled vapor goes to the 7th dimension, known to theologians as 4th Heaven, where it is vaped by cherubim who bestow blessings on the earthbound vaper for not smoking cigarettes.

Good to know.

See, I heard that elves went around and collected all the molecules to take back to their cave to crush into synthetic gems to sell in order to support their sizzurp habits.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Guesses:

When we vape, the vapor picks up a lot of moisture from the air and/or our bodies. So 1/2 to 3/4 of it (swag figure) is water. Water evaporates away over time. So a lot of it really does just "go away".

Water evaporates. VG stays.

The remainder drys to a dust. Well, mostly. It may dry to a film. If there's anything that doesn't do that in the particular recipe, YMMV as to film type or contents.

It's interesting to note that it stays more local, IMO. Doesn't float around as much as smoke does. So a lot of it is on the carpet...drying...you vacuum most of it up. Flavoring may stain over time I suppose. IDK about nic base...most are clear or mostly clear. That's for standard stuff, not really NETs.

I wish it were a dust. But VG will never “dry out”. It is a thick liquid, it remains a thick liquid. With years it will infiltrate your couch making it wet. vaping on a couch soaked with VG – what can be better?

 

[Ryedan]

Yes it will leave a clear film on hard surfaces, VG more so than PG. It is a liquid so the fabrics and porous surfaces will absorb it, unlike smoke that sits on the surface of everything. Blow some vapor on a mirror and you will see it. It takes a few times to build up but it does form a greasy/oily film.

That's interesting. I'm vaping 60% VG in a dual coil dripper at 0.5 ohms. It makes a lot of vapor. I just exhaled six times onto my bathroom mirror and there is no residue on that mirror. There is also no residue on my monitor which has hundreds, if not thousands of exhales on it.

What are you vaping AzPlumber, LOL?

 

[The Torch]

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It would be interesting to put some cotton in the bottom of a clear water bottle, and vape into it every day for a year, and see what happens, both to the inside of the bottle and the cotton.

Interesting idea, but here are my thoughts in this:
1- One year is a very long period... you want to take a picture a week or every month.
2- you need a control bottle and cotton ball into which you exhale the same amount while not vaping.



This made me realize I just completely cleaned my fans, which had a thick dusty accumulation on them. I'm curious to see what they'll look like by the end of next summer...

Water evaporates. VG stays.


I wish it were a dust. But VG will never “dry out”. It is a thick liquid, it remains a thick liquid. With years it will infiltrate your couch making it wet. Vaping on a couch soaked with VG – what can be better?

My couch is made of cotton... this would imply that I can recycle it into wicks when I decide to get rid of it

That's interesting. I'm vaping 60% VG in a dual coil dripper at 0.5 ohms. It makes a lot of vapor. I just exhaled six times onto my bathroom mirror and there is no residue on that mirror. There is also no residue on my monitor which has hundreds, if not thousands of exhales on it.

What are you vaping AzPlumber, LOL?

I suspect most of the residue on my monitor was due to the fact that my kitchen hut did not pull enough (possibly the same for my fans). I moved in last December and now cook my steak outside on my brand new and first ever BBQ and have noticed a lot less residue than before on most of my furniture. I'm wondering if different habits or climates can cause this type of film accumulation, including how one's juice is made.

 

[SmokinRabbit]

Interesting idea, but here are my thoughts in this:
1- One year is a very long period... you want to take a picture a week or every month.
2- you need a control bottle and cotton ball into which you exhale the same amount while not vaping.

You're absolutely right about the control bottle. Good idea!
I do a "Picture-A-Day" project already, and have been for 1862 days so far. So I'm just the kind of obsessive nut to do this kind of thing. LOL

 

[The Torch]

You're absolutely right about the control bottle. Good idea!
I do a "Picture-A-Day" project already, and have been for 1862 days so far. So I'm just the kind of obsessive nut to do this kind of thing. LOL

You need to document that experiment in a thread on here. If you could find a smoker to help out on a 3rd bottle it would be even better! He'd only need to help until the cotton ball is dark enough -a week to a month- and then we could see how long it takes before the vape bottle gets even half as dark -likely too long...

 

[SmokinRabbit]

You need to document that experiment in a thread on here. If you could find a smoker to help out on a 3rd bottle it would be even better! He'd only need to help until the cotton ball is dark enough -a week to a month- and then we could see how long it takes before the vape bottle gets even half as dark -likely too long...

I was actually a 2-PAD smoker that just recently started the journey of quitting. I'm still smoking just one tobacco cigarette per day, when I first wake up in the morning.
I could certainly keep doing that just for this test. Even if I don't smoke the whole thing. I think a few drags of an analog every day for the next six months or a year is monumentally better than 2 packs a day.

Now, should it be glass bottles? That probably makes more sense than plastic...


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Now I'm thinking about this. Maybe some glass bottles, like milk bottles... I think Michael's (craft store) has them.
I've got a cheap tripod and a camera I could set up and time-lapse it for a set amount of time.
2 cotton balls in each jar. One control (just air) -- one cigarette -- and one PV (50/50 PG/VG).


Any other suggestions?

 

[AttyPops]

Well, there's the quit tobacco entirely suggestion.......

Although every cig you avoid really is a win, if you can make the long term goal quitting the cigs, and not experimenting with a bottle, it would be better for you.

Pushy
(Sorry)

 

[AttyPops]

Water evaporates. VG stays.


I wish it were a dust. But VG will never “dry out”. It is a thick liquid, it remains a thick liquid. With years it will infiltrate your couch making it wet. Vaping on a couch soaked with VG – what can be better?

Which is why you omitted the rest of the post that more or less said that (the "film" part, greasy part....)

Aliens. Whatayagonnado?

 

[GinnyTx]

Exhaled vapor goes to the 7th dimension, known to theologians as 4th Heaven, where it is vaped by cherubim who bestow blessings on the earthbound vaper for not smoking cigarettes.

that's great!

 

[nynvolt]

The vapor is liquid, vaporized, droplets. It doesn't turn into smoke, oxidized solids. You have to imagine, most of the droplets get carried away with moving air but some will certainly accumulate on surfaces. Mostly benign since the nicotine breaks down quickly but it's there. Eventually it will dry out or evaporate, becoming microscopic bits that mix with dust. The actual volume of vapor will be minute, unless you vape a 30ml bottle in a very short time in a very well sealed room. I'm no scientist but I am assuming the quantity of vapor most people produce is carried away rather quickly with ventilation.

I remember running a fog machine in a friends apartment until we couldn't see. We never noticed any residue. That was a lot of vapor! Also we had no idea a fog machine might be dangerous, two cats in the apartment never suffered ill effects and we didn't either.

 

[The Torch]

I was actually a 2-PAD smoker that just recently started the journey of quitting. I'm still smoking just one tobacco cigarette per day, when I first wake up in the morning.
I could certainly keep doing that just for this test. Even if I don't smoke the whole thing. I think a few drags of an analog every day for the next six months or a year is monumentally better than 2 packs a day.

Now, should it be glass bottles? That probably makes more sense than plastic...


(edit)

Now I'm thinking about this. Maybe some glass bottles, like milk bottles... I think Michael's (craft store) has them.
I've got a cheap tripod and a camera I could set up and time-lapse it for a set amount of time.
2 cotton balls in each jar. One control (just air) -- one cigarette -- and one PV (50/50 PG/VG).


Any other suggestions?

Sounds like you're the perfect person for this experiment! make it a fixed number of exhales for each bottle. Some reasonable number of exhales to make sure you wouldn't get bored with over time, like 3 or 4 exhales in the blank bottle before morning cig, then the same amount on your first morning puffs in the ciggie bottle. you can do the same amount of exhales wile vaping any other time of the day (preferably not right after a meal to be congruent) and do that as long as you can manage. It doesn't really have to be every day, but you would need to do the same amount of each on the same day to be fair. Also, you might not need to keep it up for a whole year, the results might reveal more than we believe...

As for which type of bottle, I tend to believe glass would be more representative as we all have glass windows and the plastic in bottles probably has not much in common with the plastic on our computer monitors. Whichever you can manage is fine as long as all 3 bottles are identical for scientific purposes.

I sure hope you can pull this off cause I certainly don't have anyone to ask to exhale smoke into a bottle!

 

[HauntedMyst]

What happens to the vapor? Where does it go?

Based on driving through it recently, I'd say Gary Indiana but it takes on a stale, urine, egg fart odor and makes the whole town gray. It was never colorful to begin with so it's not really doing much damage.