Originally Posted by RetiredToker76

What you're not accounting for is that any temp flame to any fuel source creates more flame at whatever temp that fuel source provides for.

Perfect example when you strike the flint of a lighter your not creating sparks, your creating TINY little flames that burn out very quickly. They start around 2000 degrees and drop almost instantly to nothing because the fuel burns so quickly. However this rapidly diminishing flame hits butane which burns at a relatively high temp as long as fuel is constantly applied.

So lets say you use a fuel that burns at 350F - 400F and apply that flame to the plant matter, the plant matter itself is a fuel and will burn when applied flame, so you're still burning the plant matter, tar, co2, carbon monoxide, THC and all, you're not just vaporizing anything your burning it all.

A vaporizer passes hot air over the herb instead of applying direct flame. The hot air turns the THC into vapor but doesn't burn the plant matter. Some vapes can and do get high enough to actually burn the plant matter and make the herb smoke.

To prove it you can do an experiment in your own home. Take a piece of bread and soak it in water. Put it on a cookie sheet next to a dry piece of bread at set it in the oven at 200F. The dry bread will toast on the side closest to the burner, the wet bread will put off water vapor until it's out of water and then it will start to toast.

Then take a butane torch (or lighter) and apply direct flame to a wet piece of bread and a dry piece of bread, they will both burn. The soaked bread will take longer to burn but it will still burn.

That's the difference between smoking and vaping. You smoke you apply flame (of almost any temp) you vape you apply heat without flame.

-RT76