Hello everyone. My name is Nime. I have used this website a few times but never made my own thread. I will get straight to the point.
I have made numerous extractions before using straight to base (lye, naphtha, then freeze). SWIM has explained to me what is actually happening throughout the extraction, so i have somewhat of an idea what is going on during the extraction. Yes I do not understand it all 100%
So here is my problem. Because of some internal family issues, i was called back to my home land somewhere in the Eurasia, and i need to stay here for a few months. I wish to make extractions while i am here, but im having difficulty finding naphtha vm+p here. However i do have my supply of lye and my MH inner root bark
However i do have many other great resources out here, such as experienced university chemists who will help if i ask. Yet id like to gather enough/as much information before aproaching him. So this means i do have the resources to get materials from laboratories which generally are not reachable to the public.
So my question is, what common labrotory chemical solvent can i use instead of VM+P, or how would i describe this to the chemist at hand. In reality they are not going to know what im extracting, however it wont be a problem even if i tell them cause he (the chemist) is a close family friend.
If there is a common solvent i can use to do this which is commonly found in laboratories, that would be great. if not maybe we can approach it the way as follows. I can present the bark to him, then tell him i need to extract the .... (here is where i go blank, im pretty sure its the salts we are trying to extract correct?) How would i describe to him what i wont to do, cause if i do describe it to him in great detail, meaning if i understand it myself. I am sure he will figure out a way to make it happen. Please remember that these are very expereicned chemists and know what they are doing, however they do not understand english all too well, so i would have to translate everything, which is not a problem (but i need to understand the steps myself)
Or another method: If i do have access to common laboratory chemicals, what method would you suggest i use.
Thank you all for your time, please ask questions if i am unclear. The material i have is pulverized mimosa hostilis inner root bark.
Once again i will be presenting this to a chemist who does not know English all too well, so i would appreciate if we be as scientifically as possible, Latin even =P
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EDIT:
It just came to my knowlege if present the material (root bark) to a chemist and let them know we need to make an extraction of (..?..) using acid to base, he should know what to do, correct? so what will i fill in the (..?..) with?
I just thought of this cause i was looking at the wikipedia acid to base extraction explanation, i read that this is very common in the chemical world, especially after synthesis (not sure what im talking about)
I would however like to aproach the issue the way i explained above, going and getting the materiels from him myself and doing it myself.
I have made numerous extractions before using straight to base (lye, naphtha, then freeze). SWIM has explained to me what is actually happening throughout the extraction, so i have somewhat of an idea what is going on during the extraction. Yes I do not understand it all 100%
So here is my problem. Because of some internal family issues, i was called back to my home land somewhere in the Eurasia, and i need to stay here for a few months. I wish to make extractions while i am here, but im having difficulty finding naphtha vm+p here. However i do have my supply of lye and my MH inner root bark
However i do have many other great resources out here, such as experienced university chemists who will help if i ask. Yet id like to gather enough/as much information before aproaching him. So this means i do have the resources to get materials from laboratories which generally are not reachable to the public.
So my question is, what common labrotory chemical solvent can i use instead of VM+P, or how would i describe this to the chemist at hand. In reality they are not going to know what im extracting, however it wont be a problem even if i tell them cause he (the chemist) is a close family friend.
If there is a common solvent i can use to do this which is commonly found in laboratories, that would be great. if not maybe we can approach it the way as follows. I can present the bark to him, then tell him i need to extract the .... (here is where i go blank, im pretty sure its the salts we are trying to extract correct?) How would i describe to him what i wont to do, cause if i do describe it to him in great detail, meaning if i understand it myself. I am sure he will figure out a way to make it happen. Please remember that these are very expereicned chemists and know what they are doing, however they do not understand english all too well, so i would have to translate everything, which is not a problem (but i need to understand the steps myself)
Or another method: If i do have access to common laboratory chemicals, what method would you suggest i use.
Thank you all for your time, please ask questions if i am unclear. The material i have is pulverized mimosa hostilis inner root bark.
Once again i will be presenting this to a chemist who does not know English all too well, so i would appreciate if we be as scientifically as possible, Latin even =P
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EDIT:
It just came to my knowlege if present the material (root bark) to a chemist and let them know we need to make an extraction of (..?..) using acid to base, he should know what to do, correct? so what will i fill in the (..?..) with?
I just thought of this cause i was looking at the wikipedia acid to base extraction explanation, i read that this is very common in the chemical world, especially after synthesis (not sure what im talking about)
I would however like to aproach the issue the way i explained above, going and getting the materiels from him myself and doing it myself.