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downwardsfromzero
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Have a read of this: Extracting DMT with ethanol, vinegar and sodium carbonate. It should be possible to substitute the ethanol with acetone.
To speed up the drying of the sodium carbonate paste, use anhydrous sodium carbonate. This is retail available in some locations, and can be made very easily by heating sodium bicarbonate either in the oven at 200°C or in a stainless steel pan until it stops "levitating" and no more water vapour is being given off.
Mixing acetone and vinegar would be of little consequence but that shouldn't happen anyhow if you've neutralised all the vinegar with sodium carbonate.
Freebase DMT is exceedingly soluble in acetone so there's no need to heat. Indeed, heat will just cause the acetone to evaporate - room temperature is fine. Do bear in mind that acetone is somewhat hygroscopic though.
I'd do at least 3 pulls just to be sure. While the acetone dissolves the DMT very well, it's hard to get the solvent residue out of the solid matrix without using suction. Use extra pulls to get most of the remnants and be mindful of the proportion of solvent holdup to guide you in this.
I look forward to hearing exactly how you proceed with this and of course what the results are.
To speed up the drying of the sodium carbonate paste, use anhydrous sodium carbonate. This is retail available in some locations, and can be made very easily by heating sodium bicarbonate either in the oven at 200°C or in a stainless steel pan until it stops "levitating" and no more water vapour is being given off.
Mixing acetone and vinegar would be of little consequence but that shouldn't happen anyhow if you've neutralised all the vinegar with sodium carbonate.
Freebase DMT is exceedingly soluble in acetone so there's no need to heat. Indeed, heat will just cause the acetone to evaporate - room temperature is fine. Do bear in mind that acetone is somewhat hygroscopic though.
I'd do at least 3 pulls just to be sure. While the acetone dissolves the DMT very well, it's hard to get the solvent residue out of the solid matrix without using suction. Use extra pulls to get most of the remnants and be mindful of the proportion of solvent holdup to guide you in this.
I look forward to hearing exactly how you proceed with this and of course what the results are.
Tony6Strings
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I encourage you to jump in with both feet and study up to perform an A/B extraction. The standard procedure involves three vinegar water simmers/boils, collect and reduce tea, base with sodium hydroxide and pull with vm&p naphtha. Freeze precipitate. You will end with a more purified product this way, compared to dry Tek and pulling with alcohol (or acetone I presume although I've not done it that way...)
Good luck, have fun, happy extraction. Post pictures and yields!!
Good luck, have fun, happy extraction. Post pictures and yields!!