Hi how are you my fellow nexians!!! i have learnt a lot over here so i want to give a big thank you to this awesome community of travelers...
In the past i have experimented with q21q21 dry tek and CYbs salt and max ion teks.... i have had some decent results but i thought i could have some yield loss because of using old oxidises bark...
So i set up to make a new extraction this time using q21q21 dry tek but using a broader spectrum NPS... TOLUENE so i can get the oxides out in order to do zinc redux but i think i messed up in the FASA step, i kinda have the idea of what could have been wrong but no sure...maybe you could give me a better clue of where i messed up and how can i solve it:
1. Used too much toluene or it was not saturated enough...
2. Acetone not dry (3.5 grams fumaric to 50 ml acetone) it did not dissolve much of the f.a. apparently
3.used to much fasa?
Materials:
100g MHRB
100g calcium hydroxide
100 ml water
200 ml toluene
My steps were:
1. 24 hrs 50/50 water/vinegar soak
2. Mixed the lime and let set 6 hrs
3. toluene pull 100 ml (it came out clear)
4. let sit overnight
5. Toluene pull 100 ml (came slightly yellowish but clear)
6. add pull 1 to pull 2
5. add FASA to toluene
7. since nothing seemed to precipitate I added more fasa and then shaked the bottle...
8. bottle turned cloudy and i put it to evaporate right now
i dont know if someone can give me some insight as to how to fix this???
My first guess is i will have to evap the FASA/toluene mix, add small portion clean toluene to dissolve leftovers, filter fumaric acid dust, add more fasa? repeat?
please can somebody helpful point me the right direction??
thank you so much!
In the past i have experimented with q21q21 dry tek and CYbs salt and max ion teks.... i have had some decent results but i thought i could have some yield loss because of using old oxidises bark...
So i set up to make a new extraction this time using q21q21 dry tek but using a broader spectrum NPS... TOLUENE so i can get the oxides out in order to do zinc redux but i think i messed up in the FASA step, i kinda have the idea of what could have been wrong but no sure...maybe you could give me a better clue of where i messed up and how can i solve it:
1. Used too much toluene or it was not saturated enough...
2. Acetone not dry (3.5 grams fumaric to 50 ml acetone) it did not dissolve much of the f.a. apparently
3.used to much fasa?
Materials:
100g MHRB
100g calcium hydroxide
100 ml water
200 ml toluene
My steps were:
1. 24 hrs 50/50 water/vinegar soak
2. Mixed the lime and let set 6 hrs
3. toluene pull 100 ml (it came out clear)
4. let sit overnight
5. Toluene pull 100 ml (came slightly yellowish but clear)
6. add pull 1 to pull 2
5. add FASA to toluene
7. since nothing seemed to precipitate I added more fasa and then shaked the bottle...
8. bottle turned cloudy and i put it to evaporate right now
i dont know if someone can give me some insight as to how to fix this???
My first guess is i will have to evap the FASA/toluene mix, add small portion clean toluene to dissolve leftovers, filter fumaric acid dust, add more fasa? repeat?
please can somebody helpful point me the right direction??
thank you so much!
