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Testing lye content of white spice

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DeMaTron

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Using a spoon and lighter I melted/vaped the white crystals(melted clear) until gone. If there were lye I would still have white residue/crystals after evapping correct?

Thanks everyone Peace and Respect:]
 
DeMaTron said:
Using a spoon and lighter I melted/vaped the white crystals(melted clear) until gone. If there were lye I would still have white residue/crystals after evapping correct?

Thanks everyone Peace and Respect:]
Sounds right - if you wanted, you could have also dissolved the spice in acetone; lye wouldn't dissolve in acetone. This is akin to crystallisation with naphtha, where lye wouldn't dissolve for the life of it and would be part of the precipitating yellow sludge that is often seen in naphtha re-x.
 
Well sometimes suspended micro droplets of mimosa basified layer can come during pulls. specially if you mixed just recently, or things that are stuck to the sides of the container and come when you pull the layer. But usually if you just separate the pull and let it stand for a while, it will fall to the bottom.

Also a simple wash would easily take care of it.

Anyways OP thats an interesting way of testing for lye, it hadnt occured to me, thanks for sharing :)
 
Infundibulum said:
DeMaTron said:
Using a spoon and lighter I melted/vaped the white crystals(melted clear) until gone. If there were lye I would still have white residue/crystals after evapping correct?

Thanks everyone Peace and Respect:]
Sounds right - if you wanted, you could have also dissolved the spice in acetone; lye wouldn't dissolve in acetone. This is akin to crystallisation with naphtha, where lye wouldn't dissolve for the life of it and would be part of the precipitating yellow sludge that is often seen in naphtha re-x.

Couldn't you also use water; freebase won't dissolve and lye will?
 
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