endlessness said:There must be an ideal amount of water content in alcohol that would pull most alkaloids and not much impurity. Also temperature will be a variable to test. Betwen changing temperature and changing amount of water content, there must be an optimum point somewhere, of effective harmala and little impurity being disolved.
Haha! You took my bait endless!! I knew you were going tomsay that when i posted that!
I prefer to buy 99.9% ethanol with the license I bought from the liquor control board. The lab grade ethanol works fantastic and it evaps that fast. I prefer that but found that everclear works just as good. Some times I even redistill my ethanol to make it higher proof... I've also been thinking of using my still as the method for evaping my solvent. I could do as I have been doing and just attach the top of my still to my rice cooker, recapturing the solvent... So I can reuse it!