Is there a way to convert Vis to a form i can use in research?

I have Thaumcraft 4 and I thoroughly enjoy it however I am reaching a dead end in my research as I am running out of Aspects, particular primal ones.

I have a deconstruction table however I have 3 64 block stacks of sandstone, I got no Aer or Ordo Primal Aspects and I needed both to make some more aspects for some research. I had to hunt quite a ways from my village and workshop in order to find undiscovered nodes which I could scan.

I have a bunch of gold cap greatwood wands which are all full of vis and I have plenty of nodes I can go to in order to refill, so I am wondering if there is a way to convert my collected vis to research escapades?

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Best Answer

Unfortuantely my research efforts have returned zip on the topic of extracting aspects from wands, so I will have to go off my experience of the previous versions.

From Thaumcraft 2 (and 3), Vis was a force that was in, well, everything. It was constantly regenerating, and was independent of Aura Nodes. Wands were the main use of Vis, used in the workbench to create Thaumcraft items and to create Thaumcraft constructs (like the Infernal Furnace).

In Thaumcraft 4, Vis is taking a turn towards the "All is One, One is all" side of things, and Saying that Vis comes from the Primal Aspects of nature: Aer (air), Terra (earth), Ignis (fire), Aqua (water), Ordo (order), and Perditio (entropy). These were originally stored in the Vis Crystals in previous versions, found underground (Vis infused stone) and were "the purest form of Vis".

Therefore, it would seem the modders added this into the structure of the mod to make it more complex. However, it is little more than that; Vis drawn from a particular Aspect.