Swik is stuck half way in an extraction of 192 30mg pills (total 5.76gms avail)
Each tablet contains the active ingredients Ibuprofen BP 200mg and Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride PhEur 30mg.
Also contains: Calcium Phosphate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone, Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Magnesium Stearate, Hydroxypropylmethyl Cellulose, Talc, Titanium Dioxide, Quinoline Yellow and Sunset Yellow (contains Aluminium), Shellac, Block Iron Oxide.
The pills have a yellow but not glossy coating.
*Ground the pills in a coffee grinder. ~120gms of powder including 38gms of ibuprofen (soluble in xylene and acetone)
*The PM came up to the 100mL mark in the beaker. Added xylene to the beaker to the 300mL mark. Boiled, went BRIGHT yellow. Decanted as much as possible. Left with a slurry of xylene/PM. Repeated this 3 times, on the last time, the YELLOW PM/xylene was poured through a filter and wrung out and returned to the beaker.
*Added acetone to the 300mL mark. Boiled in acetone, decanted yellow acetone through a filter, wrung out, returned to beaker.
*Added 250mLs of 96% ethanol to extract pseudo.
The alcohol is CLOUDY and YELLOW and will not filter. A tight packed charmin dripping once every 10secs will not clear the alky.
Now what?
Swik is thinking, evap the alky from the PM. Proceed with something else.
Ware? Geez? Any of the other Superbees?