If a bottle of Nicotine is marked at 10%, for example, is that the same 10% as if I were to buy 10% nic juice?
Thanks for looking at this for me, and I hope you're having an amazing day!
Nicotine base is marked as XXXmg/ml. That’s how many milligrams of nic are in one milliliter of the solution. I buy 100mg/ml nicotine. Then I use a web site mixejuice.com and I input how much juice I want to make, 60, 120ml whatever, and what blend I want; 70/30 vg/pg is my usual. Add what percentage of each flavor concentrate I want to use, and what strength my nicotine base is. Then it gives me precise weights - for 10ml of juice at 3mg nicotine, it will tell me to use .31grams of the nicotine solution. But that’s because I have 100mg/ml nic. If you’re using a weaker/stronger solution the gram weight to add will be different.
And yea you should absolutely be mixing by weight, it’s not even a discussion. The lb-501 scale is perfect for like $30.
Good luck
Thank you very much! I just wanted to make sure I didn't mess up, funds are a bit tight but I wanted to make sure that, if nothing else, I have nic stored away before the PMTA hits. It's my understanding that everything else I need for mixing vape juice won't be too hard to get my hands on after that point. If I'm wrong, definitely let me know.
For juice, no. Don't neglect to stock hardware though. It has a risk of disappearing.
Yep, 10% is 10%, regardless of volume or the other contents. Of course, you're going to dilute it down to around 0.3% (3mg/mL) in your juice (don't vape 10%, that's 100mg/mL!)
You are awesome, thanks so much! I just wanted to make sure I understand what I'm actually getting before I sink 100 bucks into nicotine.
How much are you getting for a hundred bucks? Make sure you have somewhere to store it too so it doesn't go bad on you!
I went ahead and bought 1250ml of CNT 10% from Liquid Barn, VG base, and made space in the freezer for it.
Just stocking up on nic before the PMTA kicks in. Got my RDAs, got a few mods, including a Geekvape Aegis and a Smoant Battlestar, both of which are supposed to be indestructible, and now I'm just working on the last phase of my prep, the DIY juice.
I heard that the 5% Juul pods have actually about 62mg because it's 0.8ml
That doesn't make sense. If it were labeled "50mg" then that would be ambiguous and maybe mean 62mg or 50mg/mL.
It's 5% by weight. So it's 59mg/ml
This is correct. The reasoning lies behind the difference between percentage, more specifically percent w/w, which is comparing the weights of the solute to solvent; and concentration, which is w/v i.e. comparing weight of the solute to volume of the solvent. It doesn't seem intuitive at first because we're generally used to water being the solvent, and since it has a density of 1 gram per mL, percentages and concentrations, or w/w and w/v measurements, are directly interchangeable. When using a solvent that has a density other than 1, like a VG/PG solution, additional maths are required to convert between gravimetric- and volumetric-base expressions of concentration.