Solid goo

[Naabi]

Hello all!

This is my third attempt extracting from MHRB with d-limonene. I put 100g of sodium carbonate in 30-40 ml of water, then added 100g of root bark and 200 ml of d-limonene. I left it overnight under my kitchen table and this morning I found myself with a solid goo, apparently the d-limonene has been absorbed by the root bark.
In all teks I read said this method benefits from minimal water, and last time when I put too much water it gave me some trouble separating the d-limonene layer from the water+base+bark layer. What should I do to fix this? More water? And why did this happen (don't want to do it again)?

 

[fathomlessness]

Your doing an STB with sodium carb? Not sure, thought lye was used to degrade material more. plus 30-40ml of water to 100g of root bark isnt enough. for STB you need 15ml of water per 1 gram of bark. Not sure about d-limonene abrobing bark but just incase you could try an A/B so you don't use limonene and bark together. more water helps with emulsions but that doesn't seem to be your trouble here. You can't use naphtha? Don't want to do A/B? Can't find lye?