SWIM recently discovered that well purified dmt, which wasn't perfectly pure, it was a translucent golden colour, seemed to be a hell of a lot more easy to smoke than the more common waxy white and orange gum type dmt. does any other bee find the same thing with better purified dmt? SWIM used toluene to defat, which he attributes the purity of this extract, recent experience is suggesting to SWIM that possibly it is sugars which are the primary contaminant in plant extracts, and second to that, residual base and plant resins (the former he believes is responsible for the waxy beige, and the latter, as well as the former, for the orange/brown gum)
It is a peculiar thing that the range of boiling of even analytical pure dmt is not a consistent value. SWIM's working hypothesis at this point is that this is the result of two different types of crystallisation patterns, one of which is denser than the other, and thus causes the melting point to be significantly higher. Can anyone illuminate the subject of the variability in these, and more usefully, how to deliberately ensure that the lower boiling crystal is formed? SWIM thinks that the base more readily forms the lower melting/boiling form, in a report somewhere of synthesis (could have been tihkal, but I'm not sure) where the higher boiling/melting crystal form was induced by dropping a higher boiling crystal into a crystallising mass of dmt freebase.
