Microwave decarb

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@Soxhlet

As I approached the microwave sort of perplexed to the reason it has not shown any boiling the microwave exploded.I was sprayed with acetone vapor and liquid, and the door hit me. I stood in awe. When It took me a few minuets to connect the dots as to why this has happened. Luckily nothing was ignited, I probably would have been burned to shit by that. What had happened was the purer grade of solvent became super heated, then boiled instantly. The evolving vapor popped a perfect bubble in the side of the wash bottle right at the liquid level in the bottle, it didn’t distort the bottle in the slightest at the top. The microwave looked like the hulk grabbed the top and bottom and ripped them apart, then threw the door. The fact that super boiling can cause that sort of expansion is incredible
Lesson of the day kids, don’t microwave solvents, probably something I wouldn’t ever have to warn you about because only irrational people perform behavior like that…

Dangerous when it becomes superheated…