I have to agree with the hazard. Cavitation can easily push the butane into autoignition temperature territory. Regular stirring is about as much energy as would ever be necessary to achieve rapid evaporation of butane. Ultrasonic is just way overboard, unrated for the environment (as you said), a source of hazardous levels of energy, and it can even vaporize your product during and after butane evaporation, making an enormous mess. We must remember that Cannabis resin is a dilatant fluid, so high shear force energy like that from an ultrasonic transducer, will cause it to climb the transducer, splattering and aspirating all over the place, if not outright vaporizing due to intense heat and repeated high energy impacts!
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Lmao leavers on a sonicator I love it. Those things are annoying as fuck but sonication of volatile compounds is usually not a very smart idea. You need really good ventilation otherwise you could go boom. Anyone looking into this needs to be aware of the repercussions if they want to speed up an already fast process. Sonication does add heat, this may cause some conversion but it all depends on how long you do it for and honestly it will be so small its probably not recognizable. In my opinion this method should not be used, ever. You can get it done and a really good rule of thumb in this industry is âlow and slowâ letâs just stick to that and not make potential bombs.
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Well guess it s clear for evaporation ok
But I still need it to remediate thc in the cls it s the only cold energie I can add to get the catalyst to react and do it s thing
Back to the drawing board I am afraid
Using it in the boiling flask might also be greatđ§
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Great find! Thanks for sharing!
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I am a river to my people.
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If Iâm pouring and my stuff starts fluffinâ, I start groovinâ and spinning my jar. I imagine a sonicator does it with more efficiency and/or style 
Me af!
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Thank you sir 
Well I think that it is indeed worth looking into
300+ % increase strength low temp evaporation is a serious increase
Thx again think I am gona contemplate safe implementation in the evaporation of gasses
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I always thought sonication degassing would be good for purging in a jar vs thin slab, more for terp heavy oils vs shatter though.
Utilizing right in the collection chamber would be very cool too!
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Not sure if this is a terrible idea but anyone want to try throwing a transducer on their rotovap bath?
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What Is the worst case scenario?
Broken flask?!? Product in the bath?
One of those is recoverableâŚthe other can at least be planned for.
Clean the bath well and load with fresh distilled water before making the attempt, and have a spare on hand (what do you mean you donât have a spare roto-ball?!?).
Chances of the glass actually failing seem remoteâŚ
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Man, this looks like a great way to get CO2 bubbles out of decarbed live resin/rosin formulations
It does. You can buy a ultrasonic bath from a good manufacturer, such as Branson, Cole-Parmer, Scilogex, etc, which have âdegasâ feature. You really donât want to use a lot of power, or a poorly optimized bath(looking at you vevor).
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