ELI5 Vaping Cotton Wicks

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How is it that when vaping cannabis oil via cotton wick that cotton particles are not inhaled?

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  1. ngpropman Avatar

    Let’s say you heat some water. At 100 degrees it starts to boil. If you keep increasing the heat the water itself will stay at 100 degrees until all of the water is boiled off the water itself won’t be 150 degrees even if the heat source is above 100 degrees. So basically the heat is hot enough to vaporize the oil before it burns the cotton.

  2. Happyberger Avatar

    You will if the juice runs dry, but it’s the same thing as boiling water in a plastic bottle or paper bag, the liquid keeps the cotton from burning

  3. blablablerg Avatar

    Lets say you soak a piece of cloth with alcohol or some other volatile liquid, even water. After a while the cloth is dry, the cloth molecules didn’t evaporate. 

    Cotton consists of long stable strings of molecules, called polymers, basically too big to evaporate.

  4. ObviouslyTriggered Avatar

    Some are inhaled, vaping isn’t healthy it’s just not as bad as inhaling smoke.