"Will heating up my oil-based gear ruin/destroy/deactivate/kill/degrade the anabolic steroid within it?" or "will leaving my vial(s) in a hot car in the summer destroy the hormone?"
The answer is no, with one exception:
Trenbolone. But I will explain that exception in a moment. It is common for many to heat their vials up over the stove top, with a blow dryer, or in some hot water prior to injection in order to reduce the viscosity of the oil in order to make the injection smoother, easier, and less painful. You can in fact bring nearly all oils to boiling point of water (100 degrees Celcius / 212 degrees Fahrenheit) and it will not "kill" the hormone. In fact, hormones cannot be "killed", as they are not living organisms (but I am just being nit-picky about terminology here). Regardless, the degradation point of most
anabolic steroids is far beyond what you would typically heat it up to in a car on a hot summer day or prior to injection. Note that heating it up to boiling point prior to injection is excessive and unnecessary. Maybe a minute over the stove top is all that is needed. Remember, you just want to warm it up.
Now, what about
Trenbolone? Well, this is pretty much the only
anabolic steroid that is actually very sensitive to heat.
Trenbolone Acetate's melting point is about 200 - 205 degrees Fahrenheit (93 - 96 degrees Celcius).
Trenbolone Enanthate has slightly lower melting point, but that is due to the Enanthate ester affixed to it.
Trenbolone is one particular
anabolic steroid that is highly sensitive to oxidation and degradation (hence its natural dark color), and its degradation point is 100 degrees Celsius or above. You can easily see how close its degradation point is to its melting point, and this is very evident when it comes to its color change (the more it is heated towards and beyond its degradation temperature, the darker it becomes).
Trenbolone can degrade very easily if it is heated up far too much, so keep this in mind. I'd also like to add that the vast majority of underground laboratories manufacturing
Trenbolone are likely overheating it and producing severely degraded and under-strength
Trenbolone products as a result. Properly manufactured
Trenbolone should yield a yellowish golden color (with some small exceptions). If it is extremely dark to the point of being dark amber, or brown (or darker), chances are you have overheated and thus degraded and under-strength
Trenbolone that was likely manufactured by someone who did not know what they were doing.
So, no, a small warming up of the vial prior to injection (or leaving it in a hot environment) will not destroy the hormone. The enemy of injectable
anabolic steroids is not heat, but is instead cold. If the temperature drops too much, the solution risks crashing whereby the hormone returns to its crystal/powder state and settles at the bottom of the vial. The hormone in this case is not damaged in any way, but will require re-heating in order to restore it into a solution. So, do not keep your injectables in the fridge or the freezer.
And a small side-note on heating oils to thin the viscosity prior to injection: if the oil is already very thin due to higher benzyl benzoate content, or through the use of special oil carriers such as ethyl oleate, there is usually no need to heat it up in order to thin it even more for the injection. If the oil is
too thin, you will run the risk of oil leaking back out of the muscle into the subcutaneous tissue, pooling up in the area and causing swelling, redness, edema, and pain due to irritation that will last for anywhere from 2-4 days until it subsides and clears. It is not lethal, but can be quite uncomfortable and painful.
