What Are The Physics Of "Thick Wall = Cool Smoke"?
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Yup, maybe that's why some makers churn out pipes with a metal stem (e.g. Nording's Compass): these should be more efficient in terms of heat transfer. They increase condensation in the stem, though, especially when smoked in cold conditions.
Quite.
Now it's time to switch entirely to whether the length of the airway—with a churchwarden given particular attention—makes a difference in the temperature of the smoke at the orifice.
Answer: yes, it does but it's so small as to be insignificant. Otherwise, there'd be no nose-warmers...
Now it's time to switch entirely to whether the length of the airway—with a churchwarden given particular attention—makes a difference in the temperature of the smoke at the orifice.
Answer: yes, it does but it's so small as to be insignificant. Otherwise, there'd be no nose-warmers...
I've scorched my tongue with those too!!
I should smoke nothing but chibouks, and I bet I'd still manage to singe my mouth with those. ?
I agree wholeheartedly. (In case you thought I'm one of the ones who think physics isn't involved.) In fact, it's the interplay of forces both beyond our perception and within it that constitutes magic. Magic and physics don't exist outside of each other. This is made evident when we actually experience the pipefull of tobacco at hand.
Since our individual apparatus, environment, proclivities, and momentary activity vary and are impossible to predict with complete accuracy, the smoking experience is a very individual one. You make it, you get it; you produce a cause, you get a result.
Maybe that's what we can recognize together: our primacy within our own experience.
Nope. I wasn't thinking of you when I typed that, but of some others who expressed essentially as much when this topic came up years ago.
Now, if you wanna open another and much more wiggly can o' worms, open a thread discussing chamber geometry and its effects on temperature, flavour, &c. ?
This is interesting. All I know is:
I you
- to fast= Hot pipe
I you- to hard= hot tongue
No matter how thick or thin the pipe bowl is.
I you
- to fast= Hot pipeI you
- to hard= hot tongue No matter how thick or thin the pipe bowl is.
I finished!.. it’s 42!!! The answer is 42!! Did I win?
was there supposed to be letters left over? And that symbol thingy? Crap! Now I’m not sure. was that pie? I like pie.
was there supposed to be letters left over? And that symbol thingy? Crap! Now I’m not sure. was that pie? I like pie.
Bravo! I read all 4 pages of this post and learned absolutely nothing. A lot of hot air discussing hot air. Epic thread.
Ding, ding, ding; we have a winner! 42 is always the answer. Some leftovers, though:
Shirley, pie being mentioned, we should all have a nice piece. Lemon meringue for me.
Perhaps someone can come up with a formula equating the cost of a pipe with its smokeworthiness.
And your point is.....?
No point. Carry on.
Correct, but incomplete, so lemme....This is interesting. All I know is:
I you
I you
No matter how thick or thin the pipe bowl is.
I you
- to fast= Hot pipe + Hot tongueI you
- to hard= hot tongue + hot pipeThere!
Haha! Exactly!Correct, but incomplete, so lemme....
I you
I you
There!
You all carry on.
Is it possible that the greater heat retention of the thicker walled bowl serves to keep the ember burning with less frequent puffing? Thus a smoldering ember, especially if there is a difference in bowl diameter/draft hole size could provide satisfactory smoke volume for less rapid airflow?
If I were where you are, I'd offer you a pinch of tobacco and suggest we sit ourselves down and have a real experience for half an hour or so.
Warning: may also result in nothing but hot air. On paper, at least... if we're keeping score.
And yet...
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