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"Dry" out my naptha with silica gel?

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and just how would you go about doing that? maybe im stupid but this just doesnt seem to make sense in my mind.. the water stays under the naphta, so what would you do, submerge the silica gel packs inside the naphta?!

how much water is it and how much naphta is there? is it just pure water or water+lye/basidified mix?

what stage is the naphta in? Im guessing you separated the naphta from the basidified mix.. right?

depending on how much water, you could suck it out with pipete... or suck out the naphta out with pipette, and when the naphta gets so close to the water that it gets hard to suck it out, then add a bit more naphta (just to make sure you get most of the dmt) and suck it out again and then put the naphta together and evap/freeze precipitate it..

or if its not much water, you can just go straight into evaping/freeze precipitating and then later on doing a recrystalization to make sure you remove the impurities...
 
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off the shelf naphta with water? can you see a layer of water in the bottom of it or what? Or is it just that the label says it may contain a very minimum amount of water? a miniscule amount of water announced in the label would be no harm.

I think there is nothing to worry about, just use it normally... water would migrate to base solution AFAIK, yes..
 
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There's nothing to fear from water that would already be in there from being on the shelf. As endlessness observed, that would migrate to the base layer.

However, a small amount of water from the base layer will still be present in your naptha after you separate it. This presents a problem, as base water in your solvent means residual hydroxides. Hence the traces of lye that end up in peoples' spice.

There is a method of dealing with this that involved drying the np solvent by using baked epsom salts. One bakes the epsom salts in the oven at 400 degrees, then powders the salt and adds it to the np solvent. The salts will clump up as they absorb moisture. Lack of clumping indicates all the water has been absorbed.

Do this following a brine wash (washing the solvent with a few ml of water that has been made basic with something like sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, ammonium hydroxide, etc. so that it will remove NaOH but won't pull too much spice) to obtain an ultra-pure spicey goodness, only where legal of course.
 
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SyZyGyPSy said:
There's nothing to fear from water that would already be in there from being on the shelf. As endlessness observed, that would migrate to the base layer.

However, a small amount of water from the base layer will still be present in your naptha after you separate it. This presents a problem, as base water in your solvent means residual hydroxides. Hence the traces of lye that end up in peoples' spice.

There is a method of dealing with this that involved drying the np solvent by using baked epsom salts. One bakes the epsom salts in the oven at 400 degrees, then powders the salt and adds it to the np solvent. The salts will clump up as they absorb moisture. Lack of clumping indicates all the water has been absorbed.

Do this following a brine wash (washing the solvent with a few ml of water that has been made basic with something like sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, ammonium hydroxide, etc. so that it will remove NaOH but won't pull too much spice) to obtain an ultra-pure spicey goodness, only where legal of course.
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I think this is what I was trying to look for, but lacked the words for it. Typically I do a soda wash with water, but I wanted to see how I can push it further. Thanks SyZ.
 
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