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D-Limonene Purity Question

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idtravlr

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For those of you that have been working with d-limonene... Can you tell me if there is much difference between 95% pure "Food Grade" and 99% pure "High Purity" d-limonene? I mean, aside from the obvious percentage diffs, will there be any significant variance in extraction quality? This is in regard to ANY type of extraction (i.e. root bark, cactus, vilca seeds, etc).

Thanks!
-idt
 
SWIM is told the 99% will still give a slight residue, but very few extraction require evaporating it.
SWIM's FG has served him well.
 
SWIM and a bunch of other people use 95% and it works perfectly.. it will make no difference in your extraction. You shouldnt be evaporating limonene anyways, as q21 said, you should always salt your alkaloids from it and reuse it.. So yeah 95 is perfect, you can go with that :)
 
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-idt
 
For those of you that have been working with d-limonene... Can you tell me if there is much difference between 95% pure "Food Grade" and 99% pure "High Purity" d-limonene?

I honestly don't know but somebody here pointed out once that if not labelled as "Food Grade" then the 1% impurity in any "High Purity" product could be potentially harmful?

My d-limonene is labelled as "100% (R)(+) Limonene, 4-isopentyl-1-methylcyclohexane -"
 
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