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[quote:304a9861a9="Jumpy"]How do you get naptha to boil?? Isn't its BP over the BP of water?[/quote:304a9861a9] nope.Naptha is a pretty general term.It can be a mixture of different solvents.the brand I use is almost pure heptane with frations of hexane.Ideally you want pure hexane,and heptane is the second best choice.If you can find "Bestine" sold at art supply stores it is pure heptane. heptane boils at 98C and hexane boils at 69 C.I place a jar in a hot water bath on a hot plate or in the crockpot till I see it bubble.
 
While your here... Right now the acid solution is being reduced. Odorless Mineral Spirits are available rather than naptha! Comments please!
 
I went for the Quicktek wich doesn't include any acid solution. I did a defat by pouring naptha straight into the powder before the extraction. I evapourated the naptha to see if I got any fat out and yes there was quite some. I had to guess the PH level of the basified solution, but I think it went ok. I used 100gr. powdered purple/pink inner rootbark and I mixed it with around 1.5L of the basified solution. Stirred it for an hour and warmed it up a bit while at it to c.a. 40°c. Then I put third of the mix in a bottle and added naptha and shook it a bit several times. For like c.a. 500ml of the rootbark mix I used around 100ml. of naptha. maybe a bit much. Naptha and the rootbark soup separated easely but I had problems getting the naptha out because I didn't have a separatory funnel, just a 60ml syringe that failed me. after putting the naftha in the freezer overnight I got some white fluffy waxy spice but I don't know how much it is because I don't have a scale. For my next extraction I'm defenetely getting a separatory funnel and more time. I didn't have as much time to do this as I would have liked. I don't have my own appartment right now so I don't have too good oppertunity to work on this. Well that's my first extraction and I got some stuff out of it :D
 
Great Job Trip! For 500ml of base how much naptha do you figure? I'm right there! Thx
 
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