Well, swim was about to follow max's advice on liquid N2 or dry ice, but the next morning he had a solid chunk of frozen sassy in the test tube! so swim took that and put it into about 500 mL of sassy, blah blah, you know. the stuff that did not freeze was dark brown, the stuff that did was light yellow. did that four times, and tried freezing the decanted junk in a separate, smaller beaker. got a few extra mLs to crystallize from the decanted stuff. anyways, from 1000 mL was obtained about 90 mL of unfreezable junk. swim's freezer/fridge has thermometers. the freezer fluctuates between -10 to -20 C, while the fridge won't get colder than about 12 C. So, swim cannot freeze in the fridge. should swim's shit be pure enough anywayz?? or should swim buy a new fridge that gets colder? Also, swim took the unfreezable shit and mixed it with 5% NaOH to see if it had eugenol in it. what happened is that there was a tiny bit of even darker oil on the bottom and about 80 mL of "cafe con leche" colored stuff floating on top. what does this mean? thanks for the advice everyone, any more feedback would bee appreciated. laaaaate