ok im going to try to do this again, instead focusing on just using magnesium sulphate.

here is what i need help with.

im no chemist beyond baking, i dont now how soluble x or y is, and beyond understanding that at higher temperatures more absorbtion occurs, i dont know how to calculate those numbers.

i need to figure out how much magnesium sulphate can be absorbed by water versus sodium chloride into 100ml of deionized water at room temperature (which is upwards of 25+c for me)

if that cant be determined then i need to know what would happen if i fully saturated dionized water with magnesium sulphate BEFORE i put the solution into the acid bath.

im trying to figure out how much magnesium sulphate should be added, using a fully saturated solution as the baseline, i dont know if this is a wise thing to do but this seems like the best first step to me.

just so everything is clear, im going to do a 25g test from two different source samples (one prepowdered, the other bark ill grind myself) using 300ml of deionized water and a fully saturated solution of magnesium sulphate, which will be acid boiled with acetic acid (dont know how many ml ill need), basified with lye (once again dont know how many ml needed) that will then be extracted.

hopefully the combination of two different samples will confirm repeatability, and fingers crossed the numbers will be around what came out before.

if im doing something wrong or if anyone has an opinion or warning, please let me know soon, because im planning to take a crack at this in the next week and i dont want to grow an eleventh finger or lose an eye if it is possible.

thank you.