Wolfsbane Dosing

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 169495

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>
> 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


JW:
Generally, vapor, as in water vapor.  When alcohol is used as a 
solvent, you would get alcohol vapor.  

Kids, do not try this at home.  Many organic solvents (toluene, 
trichloromethane, ...) are anywhere from mildly to deadly toxic.  
Others are merely combustible and/or carcinogenic (benzene) or 
otherwise environmentally hazardous.  And you thought magical potions 
could be nasty!