• Members of the previous forum can retrieve their temporary password here, (login and check your PM).

product photos - questions

Migrated topic.
C

chezzy

Rising Star
normal evaporation gave the following white DMT crystals once dried:

img0016wi.jpg


but after freezing the naptha for 24 hours at a very low temperature I threw the lot through a filter and got this yellow powdery slude. The naptha is a yellow color:

img0018ay.jpg


it has tiny crystalline structures but nothing like the shards the standard precipitation gave. It's drying out now to see what appears.

Any suggestions on what has happened?

Thanks.
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
looks like water contamination...

Did you seal the freeze precip container 100%?

If not, condensation will form on the inside of your precip container.
As the room temp (or warmer) container cools to the temp of the freezer water will be pulled out of the cold freezer air & condense on the inside. Once condensed it freezes to ice & usually looks very similar to dmt crystals.

But once taken out of the freezer, they melt & although freebase DMT is not soluble it water, it does make it take a whole lot longer to dry & will not allow normal crystal growth.


Recheck your freeze precip method!


WS
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Seems to me there's nothing wrong, its just remaining solvent warming up making the whole thing kinda melted. Just let the whole thing dry thoroughly now and it will be just fine, more powdery instead of sharp crystal formations but good just the same.

Next time, do the trick to retrieve crystals from freeze precip as said in the FAQ. And if you want to grow crystals with freeze precip, just keep alternating between room temp/fridge, and between fridge/freezer every couple of hours for a few days (though that wont really change anything, in the end it will all have same effects :D )
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
thanks guys. The container was absolutely airtight, in cold for about 24 hours. There was obvious "sediment" after about 5 hours. The container has a rubber seal and metal dish, was dry and swabbed with alcohol before use and dried again under heat.

Although it is damp with solvent in the photo it is dry now, just tiny tiny crystals.

How is the color looking? It's off-white mostly, some glasslike crystals but some yellow-ish areas too. The freeze stuff is constant off-white.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Back
Top Bottom