Where does our nicotine come from?
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Same place. Totally synthetic nicotine, although possible is expensive and nicotine from plants other than tobacco, for example tomatoes, aubergines/egg plants is too expensive to extract just now.
Which is not to say that a bit of genetically modified tomato could not in future provide it.
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Which is not to say that a bit of genetically modified tomato could not in future provide it.
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As said by supertrunker, it's the same kind of nic that we used to get from tobacco smoke; leftover products from tobacco-production, dust and stems etc, or as more used nowdays, full tobacco leaves, is used to extract the nic from and afterwards distill/purify further to 99%+ purity, in big plants mostly in india and china. One of the biggest and I believe market leader, is alchem international, based in india, which produces frequent batches of 250.000L pure nic of 99.9%+ purity. They used to be supplying nic to patches and gums and still do, in addition to ejuice, but after ecigarettes has gotten so popular, then they have targeted additionally a product solely for eliquid, with higher purity than before and labelled nicselect.
I've read that a plant in the US has been producing for perhaps the past year? They are looking at the ecig market. For what it's worth a 1 liter bottle of 100mg nic has 100,000mg of nic. At $50 a bottle works out to 1/20 of one cent per mg. A pack of cigs has about 20mg of nic. $6.00 a pack / 20mg = 30 cents per mg. For one cent you can own the same amount of nic that is in a $6 pack of cigs. If the 1 liter bottle of nic cost the same as the nic in cigarettes the price would be $30,000 a bottle. The cigarette scam was going to implode sooner or later. Isn't it time to put some nic in the freezer?
P.S. In Chicago where a pack of cigs costs about $12 that bottle of nic is worth $60,000.
P.S. In Chicago where a pack of cigs costs about $12 that bottle of nic is worth $60,000.
Mmmmm tomacco.
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Awesome, if that doesn't put it into perspective I don't know what else would!
There are now a couple companies claiming 100% US or UK extracted nic, so no longer just India and China but I believe those businesses are targeted just for e-juice manufacturers and to a much lesser degree DIY folks. ETA: DIY is growing really quick, with plenty of e-juice companies getting their start in DIY so maybe not so much to a lesser degree anymore
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I believe a liter is 1000 milliliters and 100 mg/milliliter nic liquid is 10% pure nicotine.
If a milliliter weighs roughly a milligram, then I think that liter of nic will contain more like 1,000 mg of pure nicotine. I like the way you think though, sofarsogood.
I've got good news, you're wrong. One ml of water weights exactly 1 gram. a milliliter of pure nicotine weights 1.01 grams, almost exactly the same. A milligram is 1/1,000th of a gram. 1,000 mg = 1 gram which = 1 ml for practical purposes so, a liter of 10% nic has 100 mg of nic x 1000 = 100,000 mg of nic. You can google the details, as I just did. The tobaccoc leaves in a cigarette have 15-20 mg of nic but most of it is consumed by combustion. The yeild is 1 mg per cigarette so a $50 1 liter bottle of 100 mg nic yeilds the same amount of nic as 100,000 cigarettes, 5,000 packs, 500 cartons. Vaporizing doesn't consume any nic because there is no combustion. All of it goes into the vaper.I believe a liter is 1000 milliliters and 100 mg/milliliter nic liquid is 10% pure nicotine.
If a milliliter weighs roughly a milligram, then I think that liter of nic will contain more like 1,000 mg of pure nicotine. I like the way you think though, sofarsogood.
Gold sells for about $1,000 an ounce. If liquid nicotine were priced the same as the nicotine yeild from cigarettes, at $60 a carton, 100% pure nicotine would be worth $7,500 an ounce.
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