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<blockquote data-quote="Sasquatch" data-source="post: 106331" data-attributes="member: 509"><p>Actually I do have a chemistry degree.</p><p></p><p>A slower burn probably produces (rather, leaves behind) longer carbon chains than a really hot one. If you get stuff real hot, molecules get excited enough to start falling apart. If you think about what the orange part of fire is, it's really smoke that is burning and giving off light. So sometimes you'll see those big licking tongues and sometimes you'll see smoke, which is still basically particulate. To carry this analogy to pipes, a really hot burn is going to incinerate tobacco, leave very small carbon chains in it's wake due to that thorough combustion, and basically scour it's own path, so to speak. </p><p></p><p>Or this could all be baloney. That chem degree is in the pretty distant past.... :cheers:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sasquatch, post: 106331, member: 509"] Actually I do have a chemistry degree. A slower burn probably produces (rather, leaves behind) longer carbon chains than a really hot one. If you get stuff real hot, molecules get excited enough to start falling apart. If you think about what the orange part of fire is, it's really smoke that is burning and giving off light. So sometimes you'll see those big licking tongues and sometimes you'll see smoke, which is still basically particulate. To carry this analogy to pipes, a really hot burn is going to incinerate tobacco, leave very small carbon chains in it's wake due to that thorough combustion, and basically scour it's own path, so to speak. Or this could all be baloney. That chem degree is in the pretty distant past.... :cheers: [/QUOTE]
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