Naphtha layer no longer separated ):

[d1430]

I followed an STB tek, after two successful pulls, I go to draw the naphtha a third time this morning, and it is all uniformly black and gooey, no separate layer of naphtha on top like there's supposed to be. I suspect this might have possibly happened because I lessened the amount of naphtha each time (a little spilled once, the other time a little was left in the evap jar and just evaped), so maybe I offset the ratio, though I'm not really sure. How can I rectify this? Do I dump everything out all together and restart or do I just add a little naphtha to see if it helps after 24hrs and is separate again?

 

[gammagore]

When the two layers are not separated? I thought emulsion meant just small suspended blobs of material that won't dissolve... So in dmt extraction terms, emulsion describes the situation I'm in right now?

Yes, the two layers dont separate, well they do but there are a few blobs of the soup still in the solvent, they should settle though(with some help), but from your OP it sounds like you had a really bad case of emulsion. There is nothing to "disolve", only to separate