Remember high school science class?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
Let’s use round numbers.
There’s four grams tobacco in our briar pipe.
One gram of the weight is water.
Where does that one gram of water go?
Thd tobacco burns at about a thousand degrees.
Water turns to steam at 212
The smoke steam is cool at the bit.
That water has to go someplace.
One place it might escape to, is the briar.
It might go through the briar.
Briar is an amazing wood. For almost two centuries men have tried all the woods under the sun, and almost all wooden pipes use Mediterranean briar, which is growth on a root of a heath shrub.
Briar may be the perfect wood for pipes because it’s capillaries are drawing smoke and steam, all the way through, so you wipe the drops off with your hand.
