I’ve been seeing warnings online about vapes, especially disposables, leaking heavy metals from the coil and vaporizing into your lungs. How does that happen? How can a metal turn to gas at such a low temp?
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It’s mainly a consern with nicrome wire. Kanthal is the more common wire used. It’s when you heat the coil up way to hot and the metal melts if you’re buying premade coils it should not be as much of a concern
Metal ions can be part of present in many things. Vapes takeliquids and vaporizes them. This doesn’t mean taking a bar of metal and vaporizing it. There are metals present, though not necessarily in elemental form.
Metal can turn to gas at 0.00001 degrees easily. Just not most of the solid metal. Plus, you are heating it up in the coil so lots of little metal atoms are being released. Eggs have natural chelating agents in them which help to neutralize heavy metals in the blood and make them soluble/ able to be peed out.
Just because its a certain temp doesn’t mean ALL of EVERY SINGLE ATOM is a certain phase. Sorry for the caps but just trying to prove a point. You always have ALL the phases present, solid liquid and gas but the majority of the element will be in one phase.
Anything but oxygen going into your lungs is going to be bad for you.
It is the same as with water evaporating despite being below its boiling point (100°C at normal pressure). Actually, even water ice does it, and reversely, which is one way for snow in the antarctic to slowly vanish despite it never going above 0°C. But hot water clearly evaporates faster than cold one, or ice.
The cause is essentially that temperature, a.k.a. thermal energy, is the average(!) speed at which molecules wobble or move around randomly inside every substance. Hotter meaning faster. But it being only the average means that some are usually faster and some others slower than that, and sometimes one of them gets fast enough to escape altogether; this is evaporation. If the object gets hotter in total, that also means a faster average and more chances for something to get fast enough, i.e. a higher rate of evaporation.
The metal doesn’t have to be gas to fly around and get your lungs. Solid matter can easily float on air currents if it’s small enough. It’s commonly referred to as dust.
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