acetone instead of naphtha, what now ??

[NamRa]

I always amaze myself with making all kinds of mistakes during extraction.
This time I carefully prepared a stb but now I see I added acetone instead of naphtha.

Guys I need some help
How should I continue this time ?
Can I recover from this mistake ?

 

[Orion]

I THINK that the more volatile acetone will slowly evaporate from it. I would try putting the mix in as open a container (big glass dish for example) as possible. Then proceed to pull with naphtha as usual in the correct container. As for how you can tell if the acetone has evaporated yet I don't know, but I doubt the extraction is screwed at all.

 

[NamRa]

Thanks Orion, what you describe seems to be most obvious way to continue.

Yes it will be hard to determine when all tone has evapped.
I could do that and put the dish on a heating pad to help the evaporation of the tone

Could it be possible to add naphtha to the soup tone mixture and continue as normal ?

 

[Enoon]

if all else fails, evaporate the entire liquid off. This may take a while but at least you will be sure that there is no acetone left...

Then re-liquify or... since then you've already got a dry mass ... you could pull with IPA or acetone, filter, evaporate, re-X... spice. I suppose this would work...

Be careful though since the dry mass will be highly basic - breathing in any dust or powder from this can cause damage to your lungs...

As for orion's suggestion, I suppose you could try smelling whether the acetone has evapped yet or not.

 

[SeekerOfTruths]

This may just be me showing how long its been since i've done any sort of Chemistry.

But couldn't you simply pour the Acetone mush out into a new container, wait for evaporation, then further refine/purify the Acetone evaporated gunk with Naphtha? Acetone and Naphta are both solvents, Acetone just happens to pull a lot more than the DMT we are looking for. But that shouldn't be an issue? Unless acetone is reacting with something else in the bark mush that is giving some sort of unwanted byproduct that's soluble in naphtha, in which case you have the same problem either way?

 

[NamRa]

I believe the starting problem was that acetone is miscible in the soup.

A put the soup in a large dish on a heating element.
When I poured back the soup I could see I also evaporated some water.
To me The this seemed a way to be sure I indeed evaporated all acetone out.

Naphtha is in reducing stage.
Full recovery, one more lesson learned :thumb_up: