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questions about cloudy nalpha

Phyrexian Spicenaut

Phyrexian Spicenaut

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This is a simple question, swim has some saturated nalpha thet has been in the freezer for 3 days,on a freeze percip.Of course the visual indicator of "SNowing" was present and began to form a 2 inch white colored cloud at the bottom of the jar(pint). Now swims tek had them dry the nalpha with anhydrous; before freezer time so swims question is This. Swim wants the crystals to settle into a hard puck, will this happen if left in the freezer for another day? During The stb, a defat was not preformed, so could the majority of the material be oils and fats? will this prevent settlement of the spice? this is more like a couple of questions.. Swim is still learning... thanks
 
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Trying to reuse the nalpha as much as possible, at this point all "crystals" are 2 inches from the bottom, couldnt a swim just pour off the top part of the nalpha? also by removing much of the nalpha, will this material solidify, if so why?
 
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Phyrexian Spicenaut said:
Trying to reuse the nalpha as much as possible, at this point all "crystals" are 2 inches from the bottom, couldnt a swim just pour off the top part of the nalpha? also by removing much of the nalpha, will this material solidify, if so why?
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YEP! just pour that off and let it dry! should stay solid. if the solvent doesn't exist anymore to dissolve it, then the crystals can fully dry/form
 
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the last time swim took this bottom layer of solvent/spice and dehydrated it , the result was a oily, messs that would not dry, swim knows this is fatty stb, but had a bit of pure crystal settle to the bottom of their jars, when removed, yielded some nice crystally spice, but not much, Swim wants to know if opaque mixture at the bottom sill settle on its own like swim describes, so the nalpha can be poured off and a simi solid puck of spice can easily be removed., rember this was a kilo, swim doubts the bark was that weak... also the tek swim is using is watchas stb, who's spice fully settled to the bottom if Swim remembers correctly, will this happen to swims mix if now 1/3 of the ammount of nalpha in the jar has been removed? also the nalpha/spice gunk was rextal and yielded nothing, so swim is trying to figure out if the contents of the jar is oils and spice or just oils... its been 4 days now
 
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sounds like you could have freezer problems. my dude has always had instant crystals, even when he's got oils mixed in...they just stay a little less solid. His naptha is always clear with layers of oils/crystals on the bottom within a day.
 
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