Is "vaporizing" actually the act of vaporization?
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RUDE BOY
Space is the Place
Salutations,
Well, i couldn't but notice "nebulization" is yet to be mentioned...
Good day, have fun!
Thats because You can only nebulize liquid in liquid form( nebulization = spraying liquid in a fine mist) , vaporization changes liquid to gas.
Egzoset
Banned
Salutations Rude Boy,
Ah, then i'll rephrase and comment that i couldn't but notice "fine mist" vs "gas" comparisons remain to be made, apparently...
Enjoy the day!
Ah, then i'll rephrase and comment that i couldn't but notice "fine mist" vs "gas" comparisons remain to be made, apparently...
Enjoy the day!
Nebulization is an inhaled mist via compressed air using ultrasonic technology. Wiki has a good bit on it: "The definition of an aerosol is a "mixture of gas and liquid particles," and the best example of a naturally occurring aerosol is mist, formed when small vaporized water particles mixed with hot ambient air are cooled down and condense into a fine cloud of visible airborne water droplets."
My take on it: Vaporizing, vaping, vaped. Vape is an elegant verb. The word is way more generic than nebulization or volitization. Those two appear to be specialized processes than involve vaporizing as a small part in one of the many steps.
It would be neat to have a vaporizer with a built-in microscope. Imagine being zoomed in on globes of viscous liquid and seeing the phase transition.
I do not believe sublimation is a generic enough term to describe what is happening. Glandular trichomes convert to true liquid with very little heat at all (you can do it with your thumb and index finger). It appears that glandular trichomes are in "viscous liquid" form. According to that enthalpy chart, sublimation can only occurs when dealing with solids (herb material, mold, other ingredients). This would exclude the main course, i.e. perfectly formed soaking wet globes of viscous liquid.
"Atomization" is the most correct term. This is a far more generic term than "vaporization". Any time you vape, you are "atomizing". But atomizing has a ton of other different meanings, not always related to vapor. Another way to put it: All vaporizers are atomizers, but not all atomizers are vaporizers.
My take on it: Vaporizing, vaping, vaped. Vape is an elegant verb. The word is way more generic than nebulization or volitization. Those two appear to be specialized processes than involve vaporizing as a small part in one of the many steps.
It would be neat to have a vaporizer with a built-in microscope. Imagine being zoomed in on globes of viscous liquid and seeing the phase transition.
I do not believe sublimation is a generic enough term to describe what is happening. Glandular trichomes convert to true liquid with very little heat at all (you can do it with your thumb and index finger). It appears that glandular trichomes are in "viscous liquid" form. According to that enthalpy chart, sublimation can only occurs when dealing with solids (herb material, mold, other ingredients). This would exclude the main course, i.e. perfectly formed soaking wet globes of viscous liquid.
"Atomization" is the most correct term. This is a far more generic term than "vaporization". Any time you vape, you are "atomizing". But atomizing has a ton of other different meanings, not always related to vapor. Another way to put it: All vaporizers are atomizers, but not all atomizers are vaporizers.
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When vaporizing you are heating the moisture and essential oils off the plant matter without combusting. A solid going to a gas would have to require combustion right? Plant matter doesn't simply "vaporize" what you are getting is moisture content. If you burn the plant it means there is no moisture left and you are left with combustion and carbon monoxide, not a vapor. So yes you are vaporizing (:
not necessarily ... sublimation is when, for example, ice goes to gas without becoming liquid, but it does require injecting some energy (radiant sunlight, for example) to raise the energy state of the H2O molecules to transition from solid to a gas.
grokit
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I always thought that solids just had to be heated to the boiling point to force the actives out of the plant matter, using steam/water vapor as a carrier.
Boiling means liquid, not solid. You can't boil a solid, you boil the liquid out of it then it becomes dry and will combust.
grokit
well-worn member
Boil a solid ice cube, and it turns to a liquid and then steam/gas/vapor whatever.
Ice is an exception because water can be reclaimed. Ice to water to steam, solid to liquid to gas to liquid to solid to liquid to gas it can go on and on. There are no chemical changes like when burning essential oils on a plant just physical changes. Also, ice wont combust because it is water physically changed. Apples to oranges here.
theCerberus
Well-Known Member
Sure that is melting and boiling phase transitions. The solid must phase transition to liquid(melt) first in order to boil to gas.
However sublimation skips the liquid state (But the sublimator doesnt actually sublimate).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)
Resin/reclaim is condensation. You can visibly see the gas go to a liquid state.
Huh? I'd say that's apples to apples.
Say you boil ice in a pot with a lid, that can burn when the water is gone/evaporated, clean water may be condensing on the lid, but it lets steam escape, and will get to the bottom eventually. Also there are chemical changes to boiling water. It cleans the water.
It's still the same basic physic phase transitions.
Wax melts to liquid, boils to vapor, condenses to reclaim.
Similarly trichomes trapped on bud melt, then boil and vaporize, and condense as reclaim.
Also condenses in your lungs.
Coats them. And then your lungs transfer it to your bloodstream.
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