There are several overlapping methods that can be broken into pieces with dried herbs.

“True” vaporization of dry herbs used by vaporizers. The process of putting dried herbs into the heating chamber.

Hot air is jetted through a chamber that absorbs all the psychotropic compounds of the dry herbs and produces a deliciously “steam”.

This process is called convection heating. Another form of true vaporization is conduction heating, which relies on the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact.

The last way to heat dry herbs is called burning heating. This happens when a heating element, also called a coil, comes in direct contact with the dried herbs, essentially wearing a picture. Think of a vaporizer as behaving like a pipe in that it produces smoke. To learn more about the differences between the three heating methods, read the article Combustion vs Conduction vs Convection Vaping.

Some of the techniques available for burning dry herbs can be used for shattered.

Another type of vape coil used to break apart is a single rod quartz coil. This push-style vape coil has a funnel-style ceramic plate with a titanium coil wrapped around a quartz rod.