Best to replace them with a more resistant material like silicone.
Hold on what? No. Once PH has reached 12 the freebase is no longer a water soluble salt and it now prefers to dissolve into the naphtha because both are nonpolar. Like dissolves like. The only reason you would emulsify your solution is to increase surface area but that only speeds up dissolving spice into the naphtha you don't get any more in there. I have no clue in the 7 hells as to what your intention is with HEATING A FLAMABLE LIQUID but godspeed I guess. You don't need to do that by the way. Any amount of increased solubility isn't worth the trade off you can just do multiple pulls.
You'd be better off using the sep funnel for washing the naphtha after separating it by some other means. Caustic sludge isn't very fun for draining through a tiny stopcock. Also, if you're not wholly familiar with these kinds of processes, I'd strongly suggest using a significantly smaller amount of bark than 1 kg, like 50 to 100 g.
This is done to increase the solubility of the DMT in the naphtha, and can be achieved with relative safety through the use of a hot water bath, and of course by completely avoiding naked flames, sparks, and incandescent material.
You could use your sep funnel as a "Machine" variant
I separated the bark from the solution that has the salt in it. some salt is going to be left on the bark but I can cook it in water again and extract as much of that as possible so I shouldn't be dealing with much caustic sludge. That was the problem I assumed I would have though. I got filter paper originally to completely remove the solid from the solution but it didn't work so very nice so I just let the bark settle.You'd be better off using the sep funnel for washing the naphtha after separating it by some other means. Caustic sludge isn't very fun for draining through a tiny stopcock. Also, if you're not wholly familiar with these kinds of processes, I'd strongly suggest using a significantly smaller amount of bark than 1 kg, like 50 to 100 g.
This is done to increase the solubility of the DMT in the naphtha, and can be achieved with relative safety through the use of a hot water bath, and of course by completely avoiding naked flames, sparks, and incandescent material.
You could use your sep funnel as a "Machine" variant
Glad to hear it! Still, it makes me wonder how it's been for you for handling a 500 g extraction (if I've interpreted your words correctly).
Yeah, the mimosa tannin precipitates out pretty much the moment it hits the filter, clogging it instantly. You may be able to get most of the bark out with a fine wire mesh (stainless steel...) sieve or strainer, and then a long fridge rest followed by decanting away from the bark remnants sorts out an acidic mimosa brew rather more elegantly. Incidentally, that's one important reason for acidifying the brew in this type of process, otherwise there's a much greater likelihood of DMT remaining trapped in the tannin precipitate, since the acidic tannin material would act to some extent as the counter-ion to the protonated DMT in solution.
I'm not quite understanding which bit exactly, that you'd want to be washing the naphtha off - or are you referring to washing (of) the naphtha in the sep funnel? That's when you've removed the naphtha from the caustic brew and use a nearly saturated sodium carbonate solution to wash out any small droplets of basic aqueous soup that may have got carried over when pipetting the naphtha form the soup.
Hexane has evaporated through kilners with silicone gaskets ime. I have a sheet of Buna-N i’ve been meaning to cut new gaskets out of
So far the 500g extraction has been going smoothly enough. I have 850ml solution that I separated from the bark after cooking it in a solution of acetic acid. There was a shit load of white precipitate when adding NaOH. So much so that it made the solution cloudy. I let that stir on my stir plate for a little bit to see if it would clear up and it didn't until I added more NaOH and the solution went black as seen in the small beaker and sep funnel. I put about 100ml of naph onto 500ml of the solution in the sep funnel and let that sit there for 24hours and that is now in the freezer waiting to see how much if anything crashes out. I have not added naph to the other 350ml. If I do im probably gonna keep ratio's the same and add 70ml of naph to that.8
