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
Yes, particulates are a major cause of emulsions. One has to be extra mindful of the degree of agitation used in such circumstances.
I don't recall seeing what kind of water you've been using for this extraction. Was it distilled/deionised? Hard tap water will form extensive precipitates on the addition of base.
The paragraph where this sentence sits seems a bit garbled - can you explain what you're wondering about adding more naphtha to: the base solution, or the crystals? It seems like you'd benefit from thinking a little bit more systematically.
4 g isn't that great. I'd definitely suggest adding more pulls, along with making sure that the pH is high enough to start with. I suppose it might be an OK yield if you've written off the emulsion for the moment. Don't throw that away, though - there's still a good chance of recovering something from it.
as for this thank you for the info but ima keep doin as I do until stuff stops dropping out of the naph. I have reached the precipice of my curiosity can carry me for now. I will need to study chemistry in general before I can bolster that flame of curiosity. As for now I need to face "death" and break through the veilYes, particulates are a major cause of emulsions. One has to be extra mindful of the degree of agitation used in such circumstances.
I don't recall seeing what kind of water you've been using for this extraction. Was it distilled/deionised? Hard tap water will form extensive precipitates on the addition of base.
To get a ballpark figure for how much naphtha you'll be needing to use, check out the thread by @Brennendes Wasser if you haven't already:
More specifically, this post:
DMT
Solubility:
boiling Naphtha (80 °C, C6-C7, 60-80 °C)
"infinite"
(the DMT will melt and just create a homogeneous liquid-liquid solution. In the end it may even be a solution of Naphtha in DMT)
Example: In just 5 ml of boiling Naphtha you could easily add 4 g of DMT, while only doubling the initial volume. No precipitation would ever show up.
Naphtha (20 °C, C6-C7, 60-80 °C)
29,3 g in 1 L
2,93 g in 100 ml
Naphtha in the freezer (-20 °C, C6-C7, 60-80 °C)
1,09 g in 1 L...
Ideally you'll be reckoning for sufficient naphtha to dissolve up to 10 g of DMT (making a generous assumption as to the quality of your bark) although the volume of naphtha can be smaller if you're reusing it for pulls after the freeze precipitation.
The paragraph where this sentence sits seems a bit garbled - can you explain what you're wondering about adding more naphtha to: the base solution, or the crystals? It seems like you'd benefit from thinking a little bit more systematically.
4 g isn't that great. I'd definitely suggest adding more pulls, along with making sure that the pH is high enough to start with. I suppose it might be an OK yield if you've written off the emulsion for the moment. Don't throw that away, though - there's still a good chance of recovering something from it.
It's not usually as extreme as that, just try to overcome the initial set on of 10-30 seconds without panicking.
what do you mean its normally not as extreme as that? does that mean I fucked up my extraction? I've had this stuff before and I've only ever gotten to the "hallway". I know I will not actually die my flesh will be fine. And I was just in the "hallway" for a bit as I only wanted to test my extraction today cause I still gotta go to work (Ik its only 15-20mins real time but I'd rather have a full day so that I can process the experience). I have been going for the 3 hit technique and yeah I be getting scared on onset after the 1st but I'm able to push through that. Its the 2nd that really gets me. Should I change technique to try to do one big milky hit and just rocket ship there, or should I practice and get used to the 1st then the 2nd so I can push to the 3rd?
Looks good to me, if you just used the normal ingredients (vinegar, lye, naphta) and pipetted off the naphta without any mhrb+lye particulate, the end product should be very pure.
there were a couple crystals that had dark "specks" but I removed them because they looked suspicious and I (for the most part) knew what I was looking for
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