LawnBoy
Rising Star
A cool trick for reducing poppy tea without evaporation was to throw the poppy tea in a plastic jug and freeze partially. The small neck of the bottle acts as a funnel, and the ice itself acts as a filter. The bad stuff (fats, oils, and plant material) are frozen into the "ice matrix" which acts like a filter. This is great when one doesn't want to use heat. You can reduce gallons or liters:lol: of water, without the use of heat rather quickly. Evaporation of water without heat is very tedious and can even encourage fungal or bacterial growth.
This works great because meconate salts are very water soluble and small enough to "slip through the cracks" of the ice matrix and stay in the water. The bigger stuff gets trapped in the ice. Is it possible, one could use this at some point in the extraction of other alkaloids? In other words, which alkaloids and which salts would be too "big" to use this method? I understand that some extractions wouldn't involve water, but most can be adapted at some point,
right?
This works great because meconate salts are very water soluble and small enough to "slip through the cracks" of the ice matrix and stay in the water. The bigger stuff gets trapped in the ice. Is it possible, one could use this at some point in the extraction of other alkaloids? In other words, which alkaloids and which salts would be too "big" to use this method? I understand that some extractions wouldn't involve water, but most can be adapted at some point,
right?