edit - woops this is in the wrong place, can any mod's please move this? I will report the thread or something to gain attention but please don't delete it lol.
In the chat-room I heard fractal was allergic to rice and a couple of other things common in pill binders, and universe-cannon was also interested in relativistically pure melatonin verses pill-gak. So here's what I came up with.
The supplements I used contained: Melatonin, Dibasic Calcium phosphate, Magnesium Stearate, and Sodium Starch Glycolate.
120 5mg melatonin pills where ground in a mortar and pestle until there were no noticeable chunks left and there was a free-flowing powder.
This powder was added to a flask, but obviously any small container will work. 40mL of acetone was then added to the powder and stirred with a glass stirring rod(you could probably use a fork but nothing plastic) for 2 minutes. The solution was allowed to settle briefly and then decanted(leaving most of the pill-gak behind). This was repeated one more time.(you can use less acetone for this amount of melatonin but it was conveniant to work with more solvent to avoid squeezing filter paper, etc)
The solution took on a yellowish hazey color, and was covered to sit over-night. The following morning a layer of pill-gak had fallen to the bottom of the flask so the solution was decanted and filtered again.
The solution was then evaporated yielding a slightly yellow waxy solid weighing 0.6g on a 0.1g accurate scale(sounds spot on to me). A tiny piece was burned on aluminum foil in-which it readily ignited and stunk like a classic tryptamine.
This may not be 100% pure, but for all intensive purposes this seems to be a way to remove binders from *some* melatonin supplements.
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Hope this helps you guys
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In the chat-room I heard fractal was allergic to rice and a couple of other things common in pill binders, and universe-cannon was also interested in relativistically pure melatonin verses pill-gak. So here's what I came up with.
The supplements I used contained: Melatonin, Dibasic Calcium phosphate, Magnesium Stearate, and Sodium Starch Glycolate.
120 5mg melatonin pills where ground in a mortar and pestle until there were no noticeable chunks left and there was a free-flowing powder.
This powder was added to a flask, but obviously any small container will work. 40mL of acetone was then added to the powder and stirred with a glass stirring rod(you could probably use a fork but nothing plastic) for 2 minutes. The solution was allowed to settle briefly and then decanted(leaving most of the pill-gak behind). This was repeated one more time.(you can use less acetone for this amount of melatonin but it was conveniant to work with more solvent to avoid squeezing filter paper, etc)
The solution took on a yellowish hazey color, and was covered to sit over-night. The following morning a layer of pill-gak had fallen to the bottom of the flask so the solution was decanted and filtered again.
The solution was then evaporated yielding a slightly yellow waxy solid weighing 0.6g on a 0.1g accurate scale(sounds spot on to me). A tiny piece was burned on aluminum foil in-which it readily ignited and stunk like a classic tryptamine.
This may not be 100% pure, but for all intensive purposes this seems to be a way to remove binders from *some* melatonin supplements.
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Hope this helps you guys
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