What does spice dissolve in?

[alleyezonme]

What are the liquids I could use to dissolve spice in? Hypothetically, SWIM could use this to clean their smoking pipe then evap and get back quite a bit of the lost product..

 

[88]

My auntie's basset has cleaned her glass bong with IPA - after changa. Don't know about vaped spice, though, the dawg never smokes it. Only changa. But to make changa, acetone or IPA for sure dissolve spice.

 

[alleyezonme]

So you're saying that spice will dissolve in IPA, then I can vape the IPA and be left with freebase spice?

 

[Timmeh87]

Why dont you just use naptha?

 

[alleyezonme]

I was hoping for a more friendly / easier way of cleaning it, but I guess I could just wash the glass with naptha..

 

[88]

So you're saying that spice will dissolve in IPA

Yes. But other things may dissolve in IPA as well - so it depends what else is in the pipe. The residue from smoked Caapi is dark, oily tarlike substance - and IPA dissolves that as well. But if it's pure spice that's been in your pipe, then I guess that's what would dissolve.

...then I can vape the IPA and be left with freebase spice?

when you say 'vape' I'm hoping you mean 'evaporate' rather than 'vaporize'...

Whatever remains after evaporation, a quick reX with Naphta should clean out any other compounds. You could use Naphta all the way through, but IPA evaps much faster.