Do you think ice in a bong really cools the smoke?

[the image reaper]

try HOT water in your bongs, you'll never go back :smokin:

[lildicedan]

what if you have a normal bong.... and you replace the bong water with ice.... would that still have the same effect?

[Smurph]

Ice cools down the water. Nobody can argue that. That water is what the smoke travels through. The walls of the bubbles containing water is where the heat transfer takes place. Colder water makes the smoke colder. Another way to make smoke cooler is increase the surface area of the smoke to water (i.e. make the bubbles smaller). Percolators and diffusers are both methods of doing such.
Ice in the bong (i.e. one with an ice catcher) cools the smoke as it passes over it like how a hair dryer heats the air when it passes over a heating elemnt... just the reverse. Colder smoke burns less and makes for a better hit.

[bobhasbitchtits]

Yeah, ice bong totally makes a difference.

[bubblerman]

try HOT water in your bongs, you'll never go back :smokin:

how does that make it smooth?

[budl0v3r]

I would use water AND ice.
The ice helps filter and cool the smoke, but the water does the same thing (just lesser), so its healthier (and tastier) to do both.
:rastasmoke:

[Frickr]

there is a big difference. ice cools the smoke nice. the only thing i can see, and i dont know how much this takes place, is that wont some of the THC cool down so that it isnt a vapor anymore??

[klondike_bar]

ice would work.

i use really cold water and barely feel my hits

[NextLineIsMine]

A bong with no ice is just wrong, not nice. :rasta:

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cheers everyone, I couldnt conceptualize how it could really make it colder so fast. If the thing about condensing tar is true, then thats awesome

[harley3344]

yeah I made a sobe bottle water bong once and i couldnt really tell that i had hits the first few times i hit off it, till i saw the huge rolls of smoke. :P It was really really nice, in a matter of fact when i dropped and busted my bong (long story) i had to go back to j's and it sucked. i actually stopped for 3 months after that.