I have a volcano and I use Reynold's oven-safe turkey roasting bags. If you're not familiar, the volcano pushes hot air through a chamber of weed usually, vaporizing the volatile oils and collecting the vapor/aerosol in a plastic bag or "balloon". Then the user inhales the vapor out of said plastic lung.
Some vapor does deposit in the bag, especially if left in there. Over time, this can create a sticky film in the bag, to the point it becomes difficult to re-inflate with more thc vapor.
I've also noticed that when the bag is fresh, vapor stands longer. Even the final hit, that has been standing in the bag for minutes, is mostly as cloudy as it was. But when the bag has developed a sticky film, the film seems to leech the vapor faster, and the cloud is noticeably less by the time I finish the bag. When I switch to a fresh bag, I feel like that first fill is more potent.
Besides the volcano balloon, I was wondering how this might apply to the human lung. Studies on nicotine vapor have showed that much of the fine vapors get exhaled, and droplet size influences vapor deposition. Basically, inhaling drugs is a science, and there's a bunch of factors that could influence the efficacy of pulmonary administration.
Especially when vaping pure DMT, we know that all of the visible aerosol is eligible DMT, so any visible exhale signifies waste. And unfortunately the true vapors, which are invisible, are far more likely to be exhaled than what we can see being exhaled. So ideally, at minimum we should be aiming for no visible particles on exhalation. That doesn't seem practical unless you hold your hit for a long time, which not everyone can do.
This is where the film effect comes in. What if our lungs have a variety of films, and certain film profiles are more conducive to DMT deposition? I'm a stoner, so my lungs are pretty much constantly getting coated in oily cannabinoid sublimate. I imagine just like the plastic lung, my pre-oiled lungs might have a higher affinity for oily vapor than clean lungs. Maybe aerosol droplets that bump into lung tissue are repelled by clean watery surfaces, but stick to oily films. Simply vaping DMT after previously vaping DMT might increase its physical deposition rate.
I suppose the nicotine industry would be on to that already. Even PG itself surely influences how the droplets of suspended drugs gets deposited. I imagine a surfactant could be useful to break surface tension, so droplets can more easily coalesce and coat lung tissue.
Some vapor does deposit in the bag, especially if left in there. Over time, this can create a sticky film in the bag, to the point it becomes difficult to re-inflate with more thc vapor.
I've also noticed that when the bag is fresh, vapor stands longer. Even the final hit, that has been standing in the bag for minutes, is mostly as cloudy as it was. But when the bag has developed a sticky film, the film seems to leech the vapor faster, and the cloud is noticeably less by the time I finish the bag. When I switch to a fresh bag, I feel like that first fill is more potent.
Besides the volcano balloon, I was wondering how this might apply to the human lung. Studies on nicotine vapor have showed that much of the fine vapors get exhaled, and droplet size influences vapor deposition. Basically, inhaling drugs is a science, and there's a bunch of factors that could influence the efficacy of pulmonary administration.
Especially when vaping pure DMT, we know that all of the visible aerosol is eligible DMT, so any visible exhale signifies waste. And unfortunately the true vapors, which are invisible, are far more likely to be exhaled than what we can see being exhaled. So ideally, at minimum we should be aiming for no visible particles on exhalation. That doesn't seem practical unless you hold your hit for a long time, which not everyone can do.
This is where the film effect comes in. What if our lungs have a variety of films, and certain film profiles are more conducive to DMT deposition? I'm a stoner, so my lungs are pretty much constantly getting coated in oily cannabinoid sublimate. I imagine just like the plastic lung, my pre-oiled lungs might have a higher affinity for oily vapor than clean lungs. Maybe aerosol droplets that bump into lung tissue are repelled by clean watery surfaces, but stick to oily films. Simply vaping DMT after previously vaping DMT might increase its physical deposition rate.
I suppose the nicotine industry would be on to that already. Even PG itself surely influences how the droplets of suspended drugs gets deposited. I imagine a surfactant could be useful to break surface tension, so droplets can more easily coalesce and coat lung tissue.
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