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Science Experiments / Re: Hookah system
« on: 05/04/2022 23:56:55 »
If the smoke passes through the water in large bubbles, almost none of the smoke comes in contact with the water, and it has no impact on the content of the smoke.
- This makes it about as useful as a lava lamp - visually stimulating, but doing nothing for your health
- I saw one hookah-user who put a small plastic toy in with the water; it danced around on every breath, amusing his small child...
You need to divide the smoke into very small bubbles, so it has maximum contact with the water
- This will dissolve some chemicals from the smoke
- Including many of the very small smoke particles which can reach deep into the lungs (and even into the bloodstream). These are covered with the unstable products of combustion, which can cause cancer.
- But hydrophobic molecules will pass through the water almost unchanged.
If you want to improve the hookah, put an N95 mask over the pipe...
- This makes it about as useful as a lava lamp - visually stimulating, but doing nothing for your health
- I saw one hookah-user who put a small plastic toy in with the water; it danced around on every breath, amusing his small child...
You need to divide the smoke into very small bubbles, so it has maximum contact with the water
- This will dissolve some chemicals from the smoke
- Including many of the very small smoke particles which can reach deep into the lungs (and even into the bloodstream). These are covered with the unstable products of combustion, which can cause cancer.
- But hydrophobic molecules will pass through the water almost unchanged.
If you want to improve the hookah, put an N95 mask over the pipe...
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