Jagube
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I've made a concoction of rue, basified it to pH 10.8 with sodium carb, decanted off the green liquid and kept the precipitated alks.
Now I'd like to make sure there are no more alks in the green (basic) liquid (which BTW has now gone down to pH 9.6 - presumably due to the freebase alks having been removed). Can I Manske it directly to push out the stray alks, without bringing the pH down? If I need to decrease the pH first, how low does it need to be for Manske to work? And is it worth it?
My thinking is, there are no more freebase alks in the green soup, but there may still be harmaline salts that didn't convert to freebase due to the pH not being high enough. Manske works on salts, so it could work?
Now I'd like to make sure there are no more alks in the green (basic) liquid (which BTW has now gone down to pH 9.6 - presumably due to the freebase alks having been removed). Can I Manske it directly to push out the stray alks, without bringing the pH down? If I need to decrease the pH first, how low does it need to be for Manske to work? And is it worth it?
My thinking is, there are no more freebase alks in the green soup, but there may still be harmaline salts that didn't convert to freebase due to the pH not being high enough. Manske works on salts, so it could work?