#digester

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Image by Todd Lockwood, © Wizards of the Coast. Accessed at the Monster Manual v3.5 Art Gallery here

[I always liked these guys, although I get the feeling that that’s a rare opinion. Maybe there’s just something about a mutant dinosaur vomiting acid that speaks to a place in my heart. In 3.5, I put them in the Mournlands in my Eberron game, and in Pathfinder, they seem especially well suited for Numeria and the Mana Wastes]

Digester CR 6 N Aberration This bizarre creature has a small, sac-like body held aloft on bony legs and balanced with a stiff tail. Its head is little more than a tube with eyes, from which a fat tongue dangles. A few bristles peek from its leathery skin.

Awful and aberrant predators found in highlands around the world, digesters are notorious for their use of powerful acid to reduce prey to thick goo before slurping it up through fused jaws. Although they completely lack forelegs and their skulls are highly modified, they bear some faint resemblance to carnivorous dinosaurs. Some scholars believe that digesters are descendants of dinosaurs, mutated by exposure to strange magical energies or alchemical fleshwarping.

Digesters are social creatures, living in dens they create from limestone and other soft rocks with their acid and by scratching with their powerful back legs. These dens are where digesters raise their chicks and may contain what little treasure they possess, found in boluses of acid-proof and undigestible material regurgitated up.

In combat, digesters spray prey with acid as frequently as possible while maintaining distance. They especially favor tactics that keep prey off balance, such as fighting on narrow ledges or retreating to high ledges and rocks. If cornered, they attack with the sharp talons on their feet. Digesters typically fight to the death, making repeated strikes to wear down a foe, unless the enemy appears to be resistant or immune to acid.

 Waste Not, Want Not: Why Aren't More Farms Putting Poop To Good Use? 

The 700 cows on Brett Reinford's dairy farm are making more than just milk.

Each day, the girls are producing 7,000 gallons of manure. And that smells exactly like you'd imagine. "We had gotten complaints from neighbors in the past that had said, 'Hey, it stinks too much. Can you do something about it?' " Reinford says.

So he looked around for a solution and landed on a device called a digester. A digester tamps down the smell a bit, but, more importantly, it takes all that cow poop and converts it to electricity.

Fison Microwave Digestion System FM-MWD-A100 performs sample digestion for analytical laboratories with a 12-vessel capacity and 100 mL vessel volume.

Its contactless IR temperature monitoring, contactless pressure sensing, and 0–1000 W adjustable microwave power support controlled digestion conditions. Real-time monitoring and 360° continuous rotation help reduce manual intervention and process variability during digestion workflows

Fison Graphite Digester operates from RT ±5 °C to 260 °C for precise sample digestion. It handles ten samples per batch with 300 mL tube capacity for efficient workflows. Graphite heating and a 5‑inch touch display ensure consistent, durable, and user-friendly operation.

Fison Microwave Digestion System features a 58 L chamber holding up to 12 vessels for high-throughput sample processing. It operates at 2450 MHz for rapid, uniform heating and uses a non-contact infrared sensor up to 350°C. An 8‑inch TFT LED touchscreen allows intuitive monitoring and control of all parameters.