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BLAB mixed solvents problem

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greetings, nexians!

I have read your forum for the last year i'm familliar with dmt, and, no doubt, it's s the only place where I can get an adequate help

here's the deal
I have a problem with BLAB extraction
I used xylene instead of limonene and acetone instead of IPA
the problem is that the manufacturer of acetone, apparently mistook a bottle and sold me some other solvent (as I noticed later, the smell quite accurately points it out), which led to a tragedy - yields of 250g mimosa were virtually zero (just a few crystals), plus the entire solvent was not angidridrous (I bought acetone with that label many times, and even without angidration yields were more than satisfactory) tell me, what should I do? how to get trapped spice from the mix of xylene and some misterious solvent?

with the best regards, beforehands, thanks.
 
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i have absolutely no idea what this solvent was, but it evaps kinda clean. it smells like something between acetone and white-spirit. i've done as many pulls as possible, and ended up with about half a liter of piss-yellow-as-hell xylene. is there a way to get out spice without evapping it all? evaping half a liter of xylene is a kina pain in the ass, i think you know it by yourself 😉
 
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manufacturer mislabled it, i suppose, so the actual seller can't really know what it is, plus i bought it oh-so-long-time ago, about three or two months ago (to clean my gvg)
it mixes with water well, no layer forms
evaps kinda fast, just like acetone does
 
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Hmmm... Then it should evaporate faster than xylene.. Now here's my thinking: Start evapping with a bit of heat the whole mixture (no open fire! use a safe hot plate or warm water bath after fire is off or similar). This other solvent should evaporate before xylene.. Evaporate for a while (can you smell the mixture ? is it distinct from just xylene?). So after a while when I think all of that other solvent should be evaporated, I would salt out the xylene several times with acidic water to retrieve alkaloids, and then proceed to re-extract (maybe evaporating the water to small amount, base, re-extract with solvent, etc)
 
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