xylene naptha binary solvent

[rellik]

has anyone else tried this technique with STB? my friend tried this after his naptha pulls were acting goofy because of a slightly different method and woke up to watchglasses covered in white rice grain sized spice with the usual orange goo mixed between them

 

[rellik]

slow morning, i think this should be in the extraction tek section

sorry...

 

[burnt]

i would imagine that spice is more soluble in xylene then it is in naptha. so adding xylene to your naptha may increase solubility of spice. just a thought.

 

[rellik]

yup, but the interesting thing is how it evaporated into such white grains with the orange junk separated

 

[burnt]

cool. it could be a result of extracting a more concentrated mix of more spice and less impurities so the spice had time to crystallize to itself and push away impurities. is that what you mean by separating the orange stuff?

 

[El Ka Bong]

wow ! .. well now do what you gotta do .. ! .. what you oughta do..! what we want to then hear about !

 

[rellik]

yup, my friend is going to try again alittle more quantitatively soon he actually got a mix of crystals after it fully dried many very white and a few pretty yellow-orange along with white-slightly tan dry waxy residue between them that could be scraped up

he's guessing the solvent was *about* 1 part xylenes and 2 parts naptha, yielded 520mg crystals and about 150mg residue from about 100g bark, this was after 2 naptha pulls of about half the volume of solvent of the 3rd pull yielded only about 60 mg per pull when evaped

 

[rellik]

also i remember the watchglass with more airflow *edit: (thus faster evaporation) gave better separation

so it could be evaporation conditions and/or the solvent

who knows