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Tobacco Vaporizer

A tobacco vaporizer is an alternative to smoking. Rather than burning the tobacco, which produces toxic and carcinogenic byproducts, a vaporizer heats the tobacco in a partial vacuum so the active compounds boil off into a vapor that contains almost no particulate matter. The vapor contains far fewer levels of carbon monoxide.

There’s no combustion that takes place with a tobacco vaporizer – there is almost no smoke produced. Vaporizers are classified by the way they heat the tobacco. The three main ways vaporizers operate: thermal conduction, convection, or thermal radiation.

A tobacco vaporizer that heats by thermal conduction uses the transfer of thermal energy between neighboring molecules to equalize temperatures from higher to lower. Thermal radiation is the principal of capturing electromagnetic radiation emitted from the surface of an object attained from the object’s temperature. Convection is a mechanism of heat transfer that occurs through the motion of fluids, which combine diffusion and advection to create convection.

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