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Chaliponga soxhlet

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I was having thoughts of exhausting some chaliponga in a soxhlet with ethanol. Before I do it I was wondering about a couple things.
Would there be a problem defatting the plant material with something like hexane or naptha in the soxhlet or is it not necessary?
This second question isn't in regards to the first, but just a general question/thought. If Someone performed a "drytech" basing plant material with calcium hydroxide and loaded that into a soxhlet and extracted with nonpolar, Any reason not to do it?
 
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downwardsfromzero said:
But distilling the 151 would also be much fun! 151 is a great starting point for making your own 190. You would want to use some sort of fractionating column for that, though. It's worth it to have your own supply of 95% ethanol.
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your right, it can be fun. That's if I have the time to do it. It seems like 190 is getting harder to get, the place I use to get it from had reasonable prices including the shipping, and now they don't carry it. I found some other places but the shipping really makes it unreasonable. If I had more time I think it would be neat to make some from fermentation to distillation and have a continues supply, maybe one day...
 
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Yeah, I just love distilling but you're right, it can be very time-consuming! Producing your own alcohol via fermentation requires extra care - as you probably know. At least the 151 has been carefully purified beforehand (one hopes!) Badly distilled hooch can be really nasty. Crotonaldehyde is very not fun.
 
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