Recently swim dreamed of a 35g reaction. As this was only swims 2nd dream he figured it a better chance of success to stay largish. Swim proceeded to add first H2O, then LG I2 and finally LG RP. Problem was swim couldn't place the condensor on in time, before a large cloud of yellow gas escaped out the top of the flask! then when he added the E 30 mins later any HI gas that was in there would well and truly have escaped before he got the condensor back on FUCK!
Swim was convinced that the HI dropped below the required concentration because the E didn't liquify immediately as expected but rather after about 10 mins with swirling.
There was a very little smoke being generated but not as much as expected. By this stage swim felt the reaction was doomed but let it go for the full 48 hrs anyway with fingers crossed.
So after swim distilled the reaction fluid he had a nice thick clear layer sitting on top of the water. Swim wasn't getting his hopes up though as he realized it could just be unreduced Eph. When he recrystallised his heart sank as he saw needles form instead of the hoped-for plate-like meth crystals. However swim needed confirmation it was not gogo, so had a toke. It melted clean as, but was still the shitty Ephedrine buzz.
So swim has decided to go with adding the E along with the RP,I and H20. Better that than waiting 2 days to find out he got back nothing! To make matters worse his final yield was only 9g of E! (thats 25%). He can't afford to waste precious precursors...
So swim's question is: If swims using .8ml of H20 per g of E, when the E is added won't the water be soaked into the E rather than sitting as a puddle in the flask? or does this not matter if theres no free water as long as its in there its OK?
Back to the drawing board