The Traveler said:burnt said:Burnt, as I argued with you before, while I concede maybe in some cases some people may simply have some red contamination in the first place, I have seen it myself that something red can form from very clean harmalas. As I said in that link, while I dont have access to analytical equipment, a few times I purified my harmalas obsessively with endless amounts of freebase precipitations to get something like this:
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And once I made an experiment of redissolving these harmalas in warm IPA (which didnt dissolve them too good), and re-evaporating. After repeating this a few times, each time it was getting more and more red. Doesnt this point out that there is some sort of reaction, possibly oxidation? If not, where can the red be coming from if there is absolutely no other process being done other than redissolve and re-evaporate? I remember ron claimed this happened with redissolving harmaline hcl in alcohol.
That stuff does look clean. But its still possible red component is 'hiding' within that powder. Another potential test would be to try to destroy all the harmaline with alcohol but who would want to waste it
I have some nice off white powder from a rue extraction. The off white powder came from an extraction that didn't use vinegar or any other acid. When I did the same type of extraction with vinegar, when the vinegar was added the liquid turned almost instantly red.
I will now dissolve a little bit of this off white powder in alcohol. If it doesn't turn red I will add some vinegar too. I keep you all updates.
UPDATE: Neither adding the alcohol or vinegar made my rue extract turn red. I will now let it sit for a night to see if something changes.
Kind regards,
The Traveler