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[jabo]

Quite true there is no true cacum.

 

[jabo]

Hell, guys, let's smoke tobacco and leave the quantum physics to Nate. ;-)

 

[weezell]

All righty!!! Now on to "Who Hates Mixture 79"... :rofl:

 

[brian64]

Quite true there is no true cacum.

I'm fairly certain the above sentence has never before been written or spoken in any language in the history of the human race.

 

[mayfair70]

Cacum: A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.
I think you are on to something... WTF is a blind pouch anyway?

 

[stranger]

Are we measuring in imperial or metric?

 

[jerwynn]

How do we really know the smoke exists in the first place? Ever try to catch it?? Or hook one of those rings? Perhaps we do not really exist at all... or the pipes are really smoking us instead of the other way around? I want my mommy.

 

[didimauw]

You guys make pipe smoking too hard...I'm obviously not cut out to smoke a pipe. Time to sell my stuff on eBay... :crazy: ::

 

[tmb152]

Weight is a measure of force

Oh rot. Please do not post if you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! Weight has nothing to do with force, it is a unit of measure in a constant gravity. And whomever said there is no such thing as a perfect vacuum is quite right. You can have mass in a vacuum but not a flame.
Whatever reason the OP originally asked the question, if you have a very sensitive scale and want to know what the smoke weighs, weigh your bowl of tobacco before you put it in the pipe. Smoke it. Then weigh what remains. The missing mass is what was removed by the combustion process.

 

[blendtobac]

Actually, the weight of the smoke is even harder to quantify than it seems. I would conjecture that the majority of the weight lost would be water vapor, not actual particulate matter.
Russ

 

[mayfair70]

So now we have to figure out how much actual water vapor is lost through combustion. As a control, I think we could take a tin of tobacco and measure out three identical portions in weight and relative mass. These identical portions would then be adjusted as such: 1. Weight from the tin (no moisture loss). 2. Weight after oven drying (to no apparent moisture). 3. Weight after an "average" drying time. We then weigh the test pipe and make sure it is exactly the same weight without the tobaccos before weighing and smoking the three portions. We document the results then create an algorithm adjusting for water vapor. But, this won't tell us how much water vapor is in the smoke! Damn! Science is HARD!!

 

[randelli]

21 grams

 

[cosmicfolklore]

None of this here math is gonna work, without figuring in an imaginary number to quantify the "fine white ash" variable. ::

 

[jefff]

Smoke has the same weight as your dreams

 

[ashdigger]

I remember when I Dreamed of Jeannie

 

[jefff]

She was smoking hot.

 

[randelli]

 

[mayfair70]

She was smoking hot

I can't believe I haven't thought of her in years. Thanks for the reminder. (sigh)

 

[jvnshr]

Oh rot. Please do not post if you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! Weight has nothing to do with force, it is a unit of measure in a constant gravity. And whomever said there is no such thing as a perfect vacuum is quite right. You can have mass in a vacuum but not a flame.

+1
I just wonder why 1coyote posts bullsh*t and when someone posts a real argument he just disappears.

 

[mayfair70]

Gentlemen, let's be civil. This isn't the Diogenes Club.