Spock's Brain
Rising Star
SWIM performed an A/B extraction awhile ago, and has a question. SWIM basified his solution to 12, and then performed a naptha pull and got some spice out of it. SWIM then performed a second naptha pull from the basified solution and just got some oils, no spice. SWIM noticed while using a sep funnel to get the naptha off the solution, that as swim drains off the water layer from the naptha, and then lets it sit awhile, a little more water layer will collect. So SWIM drains it off, waits, and an even smaller amount collects, and repeat... IE., it takes awhile for the layers to completely seperate. After that swim took what he thought to be the exhausted solution and just stuck it in the cupboard, knowing there was a trace amount of naptha left in it, but remnants of a pull that only yielded oils, no spice. So a few weeks go by, and SWIM pulls the jar out of the cupboard thinking he'll just dump it... Upon swirling the solution around in the jar, and just about saying goodbye to it, swim notices... a few lines of what appear to be whitish in color, but ruby tainted, and possibly crystaline in nature, linear fragments, pushed upon the sides of the jar away from the solution, by swims gentle swirling action of the solution! Upon looking closer at the surface of the solution, swim sees more thin linear whitish fragments, that may have broken off the edges of the jar and sitting on the surface of the solution, because of swims aggitation of the solution. are they the desired subject of the process? should swim be glad he didn't clear his drains again? What swim wonders is if after sitting undisturbed for a few weeks time, the substance remaining in what swim thought to be an exhausted solution might have migrated into the small remaining naptha collected on the top of the solution? did the molecules find eachother in that layer and then collect to form a "crust" around the edge of the jar on the top of the solution??? what swim is think he should do is shake it up and pour it into the sep funnel, and then let it sit for another few weeks. and then see if he can discern a minute layer of solvent and drain off the water layer. and if the substance is collecting in the form of a crust in the funnel, to pour some new solvent in and shake it up, and then evap it... swim read here be slow to throw stuff out, i wonder if it'll pay off.
learning...
(view the two white lines on the glass jar side that were pushed upwards from the edge of the solution by swirling it about).
learning...
(view the two white lines on the glass jar side that were pushed upwards from the edge of the solution by swirling it about).
