But it is isn’t it? Heat gun burning the bud up top, glass stem down from there into the water, and he’s pulling in smoke.
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Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I wonder how upset he was when he realized it wasn’t a bong
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 days ago
One point: That heat gun, by Steinel, heats from 120F to 1050F. Source: I have one just like it. That's not smoke, it's vapor, I'd wager. Opaque white smoke would fill the area above the liquid if it were burning, but it looks pretty 'see thru'. I think the temp is well below 454F.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, he’s definitely taking a rip.
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yep, it’s standard pharmacological research procedure after all.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Looks like mercury arc rectifier
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s actually a vaporizer, this dude is one of the fathers of modern vaping, like Bob Snodgrass is the father of modern borosilicate glass bongs.
bobo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
More like one of the sons of modern vaping. The steam chalice predates his experiments by a few decades, and it looks like a direct derivative.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s fair, steam chalice became popular back in the 70’s. I’m splitting hairs by defining modern as an electronic device whose design was copied in essence by all future makers. The steam chalice was in every stoners head back then and informed a lot of innovation.
bobo@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
The essence of every vape is to move hot air through the herb. In that regard it doesn’t matter how you heat it, so the chalice beats it out.
As for the specific technology, aren’t the only designs that copied it in essence volcano like bag desktops? A tiny fraction of modern devices pushes air.
Now compare that to the majority of modern vapes, from dyna and terpcicle, over ball vapes, to electric conduction and convection. All of them move the hot air by having the user draw it, just like the steam chalice.