Shroombee, I got some results today also:

- Simple tek

- Salt slowly to ~neutral, clouds don't crash -> this is where I/we went into a loop of removing water, microwaving, etc. I think those things do help, and I got stuck on them for a bit, and drying the solvent may not work if citric acid is anhydrous, but there is simpler way (see next step).

- Add more citric acid. Eventually pH paper becomes red and crashing occurs. Overtime solution becomes clear.

- Filter and add more citric, no new clouds and no new crashing. I think this is the lazy man way of verifying that precipitation was completed in the previous step. The proper way would be to do an A/B on this and be extra sure.