Made a slight mistake last night, seemed like it was something worth sharing for whatever use the info could be to someone. I was bored, had a couple hours to kill before work so I thought id try to poke around at the last of my unfinished work. I have some solvent in a jar that has just been collecting and is more than I wanted to try to freeze. I took out a pan, threw water in it and put it on the stove, and put the jar on top. I let the temp settle ~150f and it sat like that for about an hour to try to evap a little before work. Obviously it didn't budge much so I thought id split it into two jars to be more efficient. I made the mistake of thinking I didn't need a funnel and ended up getting a bit of solvent in the pan which agitated me because I know better. I tried to recover the solvent by taking the water from the top of the pan and putting it into a jar, and thats when it got interesting. I watched the puddles of naptha on the water evap and then out of nowhere I have a couple white crystals hanging out at the bottom of the jar. This was a relief and I poured the entire pan into the jar and now have a small collection at the bottom.
I am going to assume this is what is happening, as the solvent evaps it stays in puddles, ends up bringing all the dmt together, crystallizes, dmt falls while the rest of the fat and oils stay at the top of the water. I think this might be an easy way to get clean crystals from acacia as my solvent was a dark yellow and the stuff at the bottom of the water jar is very white. Im going to try to duplicate my accident with the remaining solvent after I let it freeze for a few days to see what happens. Now I just need to figure out how I should go about removing the crystals from the water.
I am going to assume this is what is happening, as the solvent evaps it stays in puddles, ends up bringing all the dmt together, crystallizes, dmt falls while the rest of the fat and oils stay at the top of the water. I think this might be an easy way to get clean crystals from acacia as my solvent was a dark yellow and the stuff at the bottom of the water jar is very white. Im going to try to duplicate my accident with the remaining solvent after I let it freeze for a few days to see what happens. Now I just need to figure out how I should go about removing the crystals from the water.
