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amurph1111

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what's better between d-limonene and naptha. d-limonene obviously from what i here wins the toxicity and smell contest by a mile, but what about getting the goodies? does it pull more crap, or does it get more crystals out, or less? how will purity be if one strictly uses this for extractions? how fast does it evap? is it flammable? does it work for freeze precip?
 
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SWIM was also thinking..what is the best way for retrieving the goodies from d-limonene? SWIM guesses you dont want to evap because it will be oily right? so would you just add FASA to it and drop out the goodies that way? or what? also can you clean the limonene of the acetone and fumaric acid the same way you do with xylene? by adding water and having everything migrate to the water? how does one do this?

SWIM has been searching for the best way to use d-limonene because he wants to conserve his stock for as long as possible
 
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SWIM found out while purifying bufotenine that you can evaporate traces of d-limonene on a hotplate..but it seems like it would take FOREVER to evap on its own..even with heat!

and when SWIM did his d-limonene boil(same as xylene boil) to purify bufotenine..he found that it did indeed purify it..removing some black gunk that somehow got through a MEK:heptane wash
 
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amurph1111 said:
how fast does it evap? is it flammable? does it work for freeze precip?
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According to Wiki its BP is 176C which is above most solvents therefore leading me to believe it would take longer to evap than most and it is combustible, as for freeze precip someone needs to test it out.
 
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If you know how to use xylene, you know how to use d-limonene, pretty much. It's nothing like naphtha and cannot normally replace naphtha in a tech. You need a tech designed for xylene, toluene, or benzene, to be able to use d-limonene in place of the solvent in the tech.

Just use d-limonene like it’s a nice citrus smelling non-toxic edible version of poisonous stinky xylene.

Like xylene, it has a high boiling point, takes a long time to evaporate, dissolves very similar compounds, and cannot be used to freeze precipitate much at all. Like xylene it can be used to precipitate compounds at room temperature like bufotenine that are poorly soluble in it a room temperature but highly soluble in it at boiling temperatures. Its exactly the same as freeze precipitation but it works at higher temperatures.
 
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