Capillary seperation of DMT/Lye solution?

[Animistic]

Had a good find today, an old back salted mix that never yielded what I expected and I intended to return to but forgot about it and when I saw it this morning (6-9 months later) it has seperated into different layers of crystals. Whats the chance this is my missing DMT? Only other thing I can think of is it being possibly citric acid, I can't remember if I back salted with acetic or citric acid but had lye added. It seems to me as the water evaporated some higher volatility substance seperated from the bulk lye mixture and then the lye mixture started to seperate. There's still liquid in there but it's underneath a cap of presumed lye.

My plan of action is to scrape it off and attempt to dissolve in hot shellite. If it dissolves I am assuming it's DMT.

 

[Animistic]

Here's a side profile, actually you can see 4 layers. Top crystal layer, suspected lye layer, water layer with some floating crystals (maybe more DMT?) and bottom layer with crystals which I suspect maybe citric acid.

 

[Transform]

If you've used lye and either of those two acids, you'll also be seeing crystals of either sodium acetate or a sodium citrate (and there are three possible simple citrates).

The form of the DMT depends on the proportions of lye and acid involved.

 

[Animistic]

Ahh yep, of course it would be sodium salt of the acid used. Even my baby chemist brain should know that lol.



The solution was heavily based, I cannot remember the exact proportions used but I added base until 'milk' stopped forming. I'll drain out the fluid and see what the top crystals dissolve in.