last night i was dicking around the lab (bedroom) and did a 2nd pull on an old tetra trap. what resulted wasn't the very impressive pile of glistening crystals i expected, but rather a dull, off-white pile, almost has a yellow tinge to it.
so for lack of something better to do i threw it the pile into sum acetone and filtered it. now the part that really catches my interest is what i found the the beaker that contained the dirty pseudo+acetone before i dumped it through the filter. when i woke up and looked inside i found completely clear, rectangle crystals that appear to vaporize at a consistant temprature completely clean.
i'm going to dick around sum more and see if i can replicate this but some advice or maybe an explanation of what just happened would make happy as pig shit. i'd love to be able to react a pile of these crystals tonight ::-)
EDIT: some of the larger crystals are almost 1/4 inch long