Product pages speak a dialect. Most of it is twelve or so words doing all the work, and none of them are hard once someone just defines them. Here is the working glossary — the terms that actually change what you buy.
The capacity and power words
Puff rating — the machine-measured draw count a tank can deliver. A comparison convention, not a personal promise (see our honest breakdown).
mAh — battery capacity. Bigger number, longer between charges. On sealed disposables it is fixed; on anything 30K+ it matters weekly.
Auto-draw — no buttons: inhale and it fires. The simplest possible interface, standard on our smaller formats.
Dual mode / boost — two power personalities in one device, e.g. the Pulse X2. Gentle for all day, louder for the evening.
Mesh coil — the heating element woven rather than coiled, for even heat and consistent flavor across the whole tank.
The liquid words
Nicotine salts — the smooth-absorbing nicotine form in virtually every modern disposable; gentler at the same labeled strength than old freebase.
2% / 3% / 5% — nicotine strength by weight (20/30/50 mg per ml). 5% is the class standard; 2–3% suits light or sensitive users — the Snowplus Hammer 10K in 3% exists for exactly that palate.
Ice / menthol — cooling agents, not flavors. "Blue Razz Ice" is a flavor plus a temperature.
The hardware-and-commerce words
Pod — a replaceable sealed tank for a reusable body, e.g. the Vozol Mega pods or the RELX line. You keep the device; you buy tanks.
Starter kit — device plus first pods in one box, e.g. the RELX Infinity 2 Plus kit.
5-pack / B5G1 — bundle shapes. A 5-pack is five units at a per-unit discount; B5G1 is buy-five-get-one-free, where the arithmetic lives in the sixth unit. Never divide a B5G1 by five.
Sealed disposable — one integrated unit, no replaceable parts: finish, recycle, replace. The zero-maintenance default.
Cost per 1,000 puffs — price ÷ capacity. The only cross-format value metric worth memorizing.
That is genuinely all of it
Fourteen terms and every page on this site reads plainly. The rest of the dialect — coil alloys, airflow acronyms, chipset names — is detail you can enjoy later or ignore forever with no loss.