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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Diluting 50 times you'd need one hell of an amount of "dilution formula".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Pure water will work for a couple of percentage points but above that will not work properly because atomisers expect a certain range of viscosity or they won't wick properly. It's generally a mix of propylene glycol, glycerine, and water. More glycerine means more clouds, natural sweetness, and annoying hygroscopy (i.e. you'll get a dry mouth), while PG is an aroma carrier, less sweet, quite a bit less hygroscopic. It's also the standard solvent for nicotine and aroma, not just vape aromas most food aromas are PG-based, too. Water is there to make the liquid less viscous and/or reduce hygroscopy of the overall mixture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's eazy to buy:

10 liters - you will never need to buy again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For those who literally just got a pic in Russian - this is a 10L (12,5kg) canister of 99,8% pure food-grade glycerol

Автор, не забывай, что по-русски тут почти никто не говорит :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Это добавляло таинственности "разбавителю". Вроде канистра, а вроде и не понятно.

Вообще ещё лучше было бы, если на канистре была бы написана или изображена формула. Подсказка для знающих химию, но не знающих русский.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Хитроумно)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why?

Let's say the original bottle contained 100ml of liquid at a concentration of 50%. You want to want to bring the final concentration down to 1%. You take a new bottle with 98ml of "dilution formula" (probably water) and add 2 ml of the original concentration to it. You now have a liquid with 1% concentration.