SWIM distilled to dryness. That of course was a "no no"
I (Rhodium
simply forgot to check on water levels.
An intresting thing happened though.. a band of the psudo
crystals were rather small and exibited a rainbow refraction
when exposed to white light. I previously used mineral
spirits and may not have washed a container as much as I
should have. That may have caused the rainbow effect.
This was better than last time and there is no funny smell
after the crystals formed. The psudo water was
heated at 70C to quickly form crystals. This heating
plus an crystalizing plate that was sitting uneven
may have caused to weird "veins" that are on the plate.
ALmost liek the back of a leaf the veins run through the
crystals.. they are thick and white. All and all this
was my most successful distillation so far. I mixed brands
of psudo pills. I think after recrystalizing from menthol
and maybe an acetone wash everything shoudl bee nice and
clean. This is really diplaying promising results. I have
given up on the A/B process for this. Its automatic and
uses fewer chemicals reducing your chem purchaces.I (Rhodium) love to reduce the amount of flammable solvent
in my lab. Previous posts talk about adding steam from
other sources.. I (Rhodium) am doing fine without using
an external steam source. My rig uses simple distillation
is is doing well so far. SWIM hasn't worked out all the
kinks... some of the psudo crystals smudge when touched.
Magnification under 30X microscope showed liquid droplets
under the crystals.. so we'll let it dry some more and
recrystalize to see if we have something pure.
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