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Interesting EBay question
So, I have my little freeze dryer and one of the extra vacuum pumps up on EBay to see if I can recoup any of my expenses. I gave a very detailed explanation of the freeze dryer and my modifications in the auction description. One person, though, had to ask me a question. I found the question intriguing and disturbing at the same time. The question? Will the freeze dryer freeze dry venom? I didn’t get what he would be using the freeze dried venom for, and I’m hoping he isn’t planning on sprinkling it on his wife’s corn flakes (a freeze dried chemical still works just like it always did, only cells or other complex things hurt by ice crystals are harmed by the freeze drying process, and a toxic chemical, whether ingested or injected, is still a toxic chemical). I think if he wins I might just notify someone about the question in case things aren’t quite on the up and up…
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Freeze dryer info
January 2, 2009 - 9:53 am
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When ice sublimates in a vacuum (that’s the process where by ice goes directly to water vapor without first melting), it requires heat (just like when you sweat and the sweat evaporates, the process of evaporation removes heat thereby cooling your body). This causes the ice to get colder and colder until it’s so [...]
It worked
January 1, 2009 - 9:42 pm
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Making little ice cubes instead of big ones solved the “Honey, I destroyed another blender” problem. Another round of freeze drying under way, all four shelves in use this time. I would estimate that the machine is at roughly 50-60% capacity. I didn’t have enough to fill it up
Another new blender…
December 31, 2008 - 10:35 am
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So, I replaced the blender of ryeth’s that I destroyed. The base unit was fine, the blades were fine, it was just the polycarbonate blender containers that I tore the holy living hell out of. So, I bought the same unit again, and because we have extra blades and an extra base unit, [...]
Freeze drying complete
December 28, 2008 - 2:43 pm
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I was only running one tray this time. I specifically didn’t add any heat, although I stirred the mixture roughly every two hours. Total time to freeze dry was about 44 hours, including secondary drying. I’m hoping to get the total elapsed time down to 24 hours including secondary drying. Material [...]
Freeze drying
December 27, 2008 - 10:17 am
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I started another run last night. Only a partial run, 1 tray out of the 4 is all that’s in use (although it was pretty full). I’m controlling the method in which this tray is dried in order to provide a control for some experiments. Although it’s not done yet, I can [...]
You know you’re doing it wrong when….
December 24, 2008 - 5:40 pm
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OK, so I thought I would run another batch of freeze drying yesterday. As some of you may remember, I currently use a blender to convert the ice cubes of pre-frozen material into a snow like powder. Well, when running the blender, less of the ice melts if you pre-chill the blender container [...]
To give you an idea…
November 9, 2008 - 1:28 am
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just how much water came out of that freeze drying run, here’s the ice chunk from the condenser after several hours of melting
Yes, yes…I know I have webbed toes….shut the hell up.
Freeze drying run complete
November 8, 2008 - 10:42 pm
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I ended up with just barely a small amount that didn’t get totally dried. All in all, it took 2 days.
No more itty bitty freeze drying runs…
November 6, 2008 - 7:22 pm
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Freeze drying is actually an expensive process, energy wise. It consumes large amounts of energy to generate both the cold and the vacuum needed. However, once you’ve got the vacuum and the cold, neither of these items are strongly tied to the amount of stuff you are freeze drying. And the drying [...]
I’m such a ghetto scientist
October 14, 2008 - 9:16 pm
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Or trailer trash scientist, call me which ever (I heard that ghetto is now considered a racist term, which is such total bullshit, ghetto is a financial/social slur, not a race slur, there’s lots o’ white folk in the ghetto). I’ve been running my freeze dryer. It requires a cooling water supply to [...]
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December 26, 2008 - 4:32 am
hhmmmm, venom??
maybe he is making that snakebite anti-venom stuff
(very technical, I know
to help people who have been bitten by snakes?
::scary people do exist…but I try not to believe in them::
December 26, 2008 - 2:03 pm
While it’s possible he could be doing something anti-venom related, I would expect him to know if the anti-venom can be freeze dried in that case
After all, anti-venom isn’t venom itself, it’s just made from the venom. Anyone that knows how to make the anti-venom, would probably know whether or not it could be freeze dried because once you have the level of chemical knowledge to make the stuff, you have more than enough to know about this.
December 26, 2008 - 8:45 am
Or he might be a home scientist doing something super-nifty
You can always click the checkbox to post that question to the item description for others to see, too. You never know, maybe there is a community of snake venom freeze driers! I bet there’s a facebook group….
December 26, 2008 - 2:03 pm
I thought about posting the question just for the uniqueness of it, but didn’t for the sake of privacy