[HPforGrownups] Re: Wolfsbane Dosing

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 169493

jmwcfo wrote:
> Please note that the potion is SMOKING.  Smoke is a mixture (as are 
> most if not all potions we have seen), not a solution.  Smoke 
> comprises a particulate, which is a solid, suspended (mixed, not 
> dissolved) in a gas, typically water vapor.  As the boiling 
> continues, the proportion of the remaining non-volatized liquid 
> mixture is subject to change as volatized ingredients boil off.  
> Thus, the second day's potion may have a different proportion of 
> ingredients than the first day, raising the issue of possible 
> inefficacy.

Bart:
	Hey, if the potion wants to go out into the back and have a cigarette, 
it's none of our business (or, in other words, "smoking" has more than 
one meaning).

> If the only volatile ingredient were water, you would NOT have SMOKE, 
> you would have STEAM, which is water vapor without suspended 
> particulates.  

	What do you call it if the liquid is something other than water?

	Bart