intechgration
Rising Star
SWIM's using three HDPE gallon milk jugs for his extraction. SWIM is extracting ~120g of MHRB,~150g of NaOH, and ~3L of distilled H20 in each jug.
He noticed that after a few days in one of the jugs only, an opaque yellow film had collected at the interface between the polar and nonpolar layers. This film disperses into the naptha and clouds it with only slight agitation of the jug, even by carefully and smoothly moving the jug across the countertop, or pipetting the naptha out of the jug. Essentially, its impossible to remove the naptha without collecting this stuff.
When freeze-precipitating, this clouded naptha yields brownish spice.
SWIM recycles his naptha, and usually it gains a slightly yellow, straw-like color, but it remains clear. This contamination turns the naptha cloudy and a deep piss yellow.
IN the first attached photo, this wierd contamination is in the beaker on the left, and the usual naptha is in the bottle on the right.
IN the second photo, the jug with contaminated naptha is on the left, and the normal one is on the right. The samples in the first photo came from these two jugs, respectively.
Has anyone seen this before and/or offer any advice? SWIM thinks its probably just plant fats/oils, but would appreciate some input.
He noticed that after a few days in one of the jugs only, an opaque yellow film had collected at the interface between the polar and nonpolar layers. This film disperses into the naptha and clouds it with only slight agitation of the jug, even by carefully and smoothly moving the jug across the countertop, or pipetting the naptha out of the jug. Essentially, its impossible to remove the naptha without collecting this stuff.
When freeze-precipitating, this clouded naptha yields brownish spice.
SWIM recycles his naptha, and usually it gains a slightly yellow, straw-like color, but it remains clear. This contamination turns the naptha cloudy and a deep piss yellow.
IN the first attached photo, this wierd contamination is in the beaker on the left, and the usual naptha is in the bottle on the right.
IN the second photo, the jug with contaminated naptha is on the left, and the normal one is on the right. The samples in the first photo came from these two jugs, respectively.
Has anyone seen this before and/or offer any advice? SWIM thinks its probably just plant fats/oils, but would appreciate some input.
