Here's the background:
A month ago I did an extraction on 100 g of mimosa. I used a turkey baster with a rubber bulb to transfer the solvent from the jar to the glass precipitation dishes.
After I did 4 pulls (over about 24 hours), I finished up. I took the baster apart and rinsed the rubber bulb with water. After it was dry, I packed it away with the rest of my extraction equipment.
Today, I had some reason to look inside the box where I stored the baster, and I noticed that the rubber bulb had gone piebald. My first thought was that the rubber was falling apart. But when I took a closer look, I saw that the white parts were a coating of pure white crystals. See the picture below (if I succeed in attaching it, that is)
There are more crystals inside the bulb, too – although it's hard to tell how much, without cutting the bulb apart.
A couple of facts:
The rubber bulb was definitely in contact with saturated solvent when I did my pulls, since I always turned the baster upside-down in order to keep the solvent from dripping out.
If it's relevant, I was using Cyb's Max Ion tek and pulling with bestine and naptha.
So, here are my questions:
First, am I reasonable in assuming the crystals are DMT? They sure look like it. But then, maybe there's something about the behavior of rubber that I don't know about.
Second – if the crystals are DMT, then the million dollar question is whether they're safe to smoke, considering the fact that they were not only precipitated ON rubber, but THROUGH it. (Since I rinsed and dried the bulb before I put it away, all the dmt that crystallized out over the last month had to have come from solvent that was absorbed by the rubber. But, for what it's worth, the crystals are stark white – much more white than any crystals I've ever gotten the 'usual' way. If color is a sign of purity – a controversial point, I know – then these are very pure.
Third – if those are DMT crystals, any ideas about why they showed up on the rubber baster bulb instead of in my glass precipitation tray? I searched the site for references to crystals appearing on rubber, but couldn't find any. Yet, I know lots of people use turkey basters – and my turkey baster, at least, seems like a spice magnet. As far as I can tell from eyeballing the bulb, I got a LOT more crystals, proportionately, from the few drops of solvent that were left inside the rubber bulb each time I did a pull than I got from the solvent that I put in the freezer.
Well, thanks in advance for any insights you can provide.
A month ago I did an extraction on 100 g of mimosa. I used a turkey baster with a rubber bulb to transfer the solvent from the jar to the glass precipitation dishes.
After I did 4 pulls (over about 24 hours), I finished up. I took the baster apart and rinsed the rubber bulb with water. After it was dry, I packed it away with the rest of my extraction equipment.
Today, I had some reason to look inside the box where I stored the baster, and I noticed that the rubber bulb had gone piebald. My first thought was that the rubber was falling apart. But when I took a closer look, I saw that the white parts were a coating of pure white crystals. See the picture below (if I succeed in attaching it, that is)
There are more crystals inside the bulb, too – although it's hard to tell how much, without cutting the bulb apart.
A couple of facts:
The rubber bulb was definitely in contact with saturated solvent when I did my pulls, since I always turned the baster upside-down in order to keep the solvent from dripping out.
If it's relevant, I was using Cyb's Max Ion tek and pulling with bestine and naptha.
So, here are my questions:
First, am I reasonable in assuming the crystals are DMT? They sure look like it. But then, maybe there's something about the behavior of rubber that I don't know about.
Second – if the crystals are DMT, then the million dollar question is whether they're safe to smoke, considering the fact that they were not only precipitated ON rubber, but THROUGH it. (Since I rinsed and dried the bulb before I put it away, all the dmt that crystallized out over the last month had to have come from solvent that was absorbed by the rubber. But, for what it's worth, the crystals are stark white – much more white than any crystals I've ever gotten the 'usual' way. If color is a sign of purity – a controversial point, I know – then these are very pure.
Third – if those are DMT crystals, any ideas about why they showed up on the rubber baster bulb instead of in my glass precipitation tray? I searched the site for references to crystals appearing on rubber, but couldn't find any. Yet, I know lots of people use turkey basters – and my turkey baster, at least, seems like a spice magnet. As far as I can tell from eyeballing the bulb, I got a LOT more crystals, proportionately, from the few drops of solvent that were left inside the rubber bulb each time I did a pull than I got from the solvent that I put in the freezer.
Well, thanks in advance for any insights you can provide.
