Re: What the heck?!?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:43 pm
Holy crap. Schneider for President!kurtdesign1 wrote:Sometimes we combine the niche with the norm and end up with laws that ensure nothing but fear.
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Holy crap. Schneider for President!kurtdesign1 wrote:Sometimes we combine the niche with the norm and end up with laws that ensure nothing but fear.
Interesting. For some reason it didn't occur to me originally, but this is a very intriguing point. Gases absolutely interact with the physical world very differently at differing pressures. In scuba diving this is quite apparent. For example, Oxygen becomes toxic at a partial pressure greater than 1.6atm. One can expedite decompression at the end of a dive with 100% O2....but if you switch to your O2 tank deeper than 20ish feet, it's toxic. You would typically convulsed and die. Deco divers go to great lengths to make their final-stop regulator and tank arrangement confusion-proof for this reason. It would make sense that different atmospheric pressure would impact other interactions as well. Now, the pressure differential above sea-level is miniscule compared to the pressures achievable underwater, but still there's a measurable difference. The key would likely lie in knowing *which* gases have an impact on cigars during aging. You could then work out how the partial pressure of this gas and experiment at different altitudes to see the difference. Of course, finding a control in a product as varied as cigars would be tough. None the less, I'm now fascinated by this lone of thinking.kurtdesign1 wrote:An old friend was relatively close to proving that barometric pressure played into the equation.
Thanks for responding so promptly.Kip wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:59 amInteresting. For some reason it didn't occur to me originally, but this is a very intriguing point. Gases absolutely interact with the physical world very differently at differing pressures. In scuba diving this is quite apparent. For example, Oxygen becomes toxic at a partial pressure greater than 1.6atm. One can expedite decompression at the end of a dive with 100% O2....but if you switch to your O2 tank deeper than 20ish feet, it's toxic. You would typically convulsed and die. Deco divers go to great lengths to make their final-stop regulator and tank arrangement confusion-proof for this reason. It would make sense that different atmospheric pressure would impact other interactions as well. Now, the pressure differential above sea-level is miniscule compared to the pressures achievable underwater, but still there's a measurable difference. The key would likely lie in knowing *which* gases have an impact on cigars during aging. You could then work out how the partial pressure of this gas and experiment at different altitudes to see the difference. Of course, finding a control in a product as varied as cigars would be tough. None the less, I'm now fascinated by this lone of thinking.kurtdesign1 wrote:An old friend was relatively close to proving that barometric pressure played into the equation.
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