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SWIM's personal communication with ghbee indicated that the aqueous solution was to bee made via nuking and then poured into the Haterade bottle, and the balance made up by adding dH2O to make 32 oz.
Also referenced in the post is the mention of pouring out the soap to cool or making a solution...
ghbee also told SWIM that since the lactone came in 2.5 kilo bottles, it made no sense to do little batches, i.e. 500 g (of lactone) at a time was a small as it went.
Back to the "melting" issue, once again, to reiterate, the aqueous solution was used, not pure molten soap, so the continued reference to "melting" is lost on SWIM:
if a bee were to pour molten anything into any container, and add cool solvent, chances are that the compound in question would merely harden right away w/o dissolving
BUT
if one were to heat the solvent first, there would bee a better chance of partial to complete dissolution
AND
if the solvent is to bee heated anyways, might as well just throw the compound, solvent, and all in the micro and do it all at once, assuming that the compound and solvent in question are not affected unduly by microwaves.
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PS-an email to ghbee seems to bee in order...