hello inmotion

source 1 and 2 are two different resources of mhrb, one being a prepowdered, the second being a bark i powdered myself.

there is no control im just trying to reproduce what happened the first time.

what i observed was at room temperature nothing happened, but when i then put in a glass rod and swirled around the mass the entire jar spontaneously emulsified which means a layer of something formed which trapped the naphtha, then as i recounted something appeared in the middle of the jar which had a different refraction index then the solvent, got to the top then fell back down into the black goo and shortly after the jar shattered.

the one thing im wondering is if water with epsom salt is heavier than water without (most likely) and if it is possible for it to trap the solvent, either all on its own or under a layer of lighter water.

also good news from the second pull from the jar that did not shatter open

second pull produced 190mg from source 2 (the bark i had to shred myself)

combined with the first pull thats 670 mg divided by 25g

2.68% from two pulls (but i was suppose to do four pulls, but the main interest is that source two was the new source i was using for comparison, so the numbers so far are looking promising)

im slowly getting better at this and another 2 jars of bark was put into the freezer not a half hour ago so im back at it.

this time im going to more accurately reproduce the effects of the first test and use a combination of magnesium sulphate (for its ionic effects) and sodium chloride (to break up the emulsions) so i dont have the spontaneous demulsion occur again and pray the gods of extractions that they will bless me with similar results to the first experiment, and then once that is done i can apply occam's razor and refine the method.

next time though, im not going to heat the jar to 80C, thats for sure.

thank you everyone