DMT shelf life?

[DancinDog]

I've read that freebase DMT degrades over time. I don't know how long it will last stored in a film canister at room temperature, perhaps a year or two?

I've read that it is more stable in the salt form. I'm curious about storing the freebase in naphtha for long-term storage, instead of freeze precipitating it. Is that a viable storage method?

 

[Transform]

I've read that freebase DMT degrades over time. I don't know how long it will last stored in a film canister at room temperature, perhaps a year or two?

I've read that it is more stable in the salt form. I'm curious about storing the freebase in naphtha for long-term storage, instead of freeze precipitating it. Is that a viable storage method?

You have to consider the solubility of oxygen in naphtha unless you're using sealed, argon-filled containers as @bk2492 helpfully suggests. [Nitrogen would also work.] Remember, too, that crystalline material has the oxygen exposure effectively limited to its surfaces, whereas in a solution each and every molecule is fully exposed to the solvent environment.

• When exposed to the open atmosphere, a solution of DMT in naphtha degrades to black tar over the course of several months, at least with daytime ambient temperatures reaching 40+ °C on occasion.

A properly sterile, sealed vial of DMT fumarate in water would be stable almost indefinitely (other than the tiny percentage of carbon-14 and occasional cosmic rays slowly messing things up, but that's an impractical timescale to be worrying about )

 

[TransistorBass]

Would there be a different shelf life for A/B extracted HCL DMT versus Fumarate?
I've got the bulk of my tiny stash in a plastic pot in the dark of my cool garage (a batch I'm going to further clean with Haptane when i get around to it).
My other tiny stash is in a little brown glass bottle at room temperature.