WHY WOULD THE LIQUIDEX VISCOSITY CHANGE

I would also like to know! b is for BUMP

So far I think that there are 5 people that make liquidex on their own. Now Some have different mgs/ml while still others use a different suspending solution.

But if it's all coming from the same guy, then unless he or they changed the suspending solution, I don't know.

Ok, I'm also known, in some circles, as 'Mr. Hypothesis' so here you go.

First of all. 4mg/ ml is very small. it's like, one part in 250, so even if the dosages were way way off it'd not really change the viscosity.

But, from the taste, it's clear they put other stuff in there. Stuff like B-alcohol, or glycerin.

And that's it. A little less glycerin (or prop glycol or whatever) and it's thinner.

Take a thick batch one of the older batches and add just a little bit of water to it... this will make it very thin even the slightest change in amount of liquids used with it! Any little variances will change the thickness! To a bottle from the old batch that I had I added a little water to it less than 1ml and it made ity almost water thin!

The mg/ml ratio doesnt mean the thickness it is what ius used to dissolve it and keep it in a liquid state! you could make it6mg/ml and have it the same thickness about! I asked the same question to the manufacturer and he said they made it thinner because people were complaining that it was to hard to draw out!

they changed the suspending solution, i dont know what they did but yeah its much thinner.

4mg per ml wont be thick at all, its the other things in there that thicken it.

i think theres less glycerol in it, it doesnt taste as good to me, and the glycerol was what gave it the sweet taste.

if youve ever tried a liquidex without glycerol you know it doesnt taste bad, but not good, and its a totally diff taste from the 4mg/ml version.

notacow said:

Ok, I'm also known, in some circles, as 'Mr. Hypothesis' so here you go.

First of all. 4mg/ ml is very small. it's like, one part in 250, so even if the dosages were way way off it'd not really change the viscosity.

But, from the taste, it's clear they put other stuff in there. Stuff like B-alcohol, or glycerin.

And that's it. A little less glycerin (or prop glycol or whatever) and it's thinner.

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This sounds realisic. 4mg/ml isn't very much to suspend and probably shouldn't be used as an indication of potency. The viscosity is more of an indication of the suspending solution. A thicker solution may have a tendency to stay mixed evenly after sitting for awhile rather than setteling out. If its real thin and you think that may be a problem you may want to give it a shake or two before drawing your, I mean your boys, dose.
-TAZ

basskiller said:

But if it's all coming from the same guy, then unless he or they changed the suspending solution, I don't know.

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Hmmm sounds logical now

Does temperature have anything to do with it? Mine seems like it is getting thinner. I measured it initially in my living room. But, I store it in my kitchen on the top shelf of a cabinet. I think the kitchen maintains a higher average room temperature because of the fact that I have three HVAC units in my house and I keep some rooms cooler than others. It seems to me that if it gets a little hotter, it would get a little thinner. But, I am no chemist. Maybe SC knows.

Anyway, I think I will re-measure mine. The first test results came to 8 drops through an 18 guage pin for .5mg. and 4 drops for .25mg, so it was already thinner than gearedup' s experiment that resulted in 6 drops for .5mg.

Sure, Heat changes the viscosity of oil.

I doesn't matter that the powder is coming from the same person. I matters what the powder is being suspended in. Glycerin is very thick. Butylene glycol is also thich but not as thick. Propylene glycol is not thick at all and of course we know that alcolol is less dense then water so it's the thinnest.

You can have a 4mg/ml solution in water and alcohol and have it thinner then a 1mg/ml solution mixed in glycerine or glycol.

Now personally, speaking from a chemist knowledge, I would prefer that my powder was suspended in glycerin or any one of the glycols. The reason is that glycerin or glycols are natural
anti-freeze and UV blockers. This would garuantee that your product doesn't crystalize due to weather or light therefore causing you to lose some of the active ingredient.

yes most liquids flow easier when they are warmer. btw, id try and keep it somehwere cool if possible, itl last longer. (unless you go through a bottle every 10-15 wks like me lol)