I was looking for a heptane recrystallization tek on here and saw this in a thread
"diox8tony" wrote:hmmm, SWIM just had this happen, yellow naptha, couldn't separate. SWIM decided to:
1) mix naptha with vinegar water. to remove spice from naptha. naptha stayed yellow, spice went into acidic water.
2) decant/separate the two layers, keeping the water.
3) make acidic water basic, with lye.
4) put new naptha into lye/water. and xtract.
5) 30 min later the naptha/spice in the freezer was white.
SWIM was very happy with results.
I was wondering if this was a good way to do a recrystallization or if I should just go with the bestine tek on shroomery. This one appealed to me a little more so if it would be fine to use could someone give me some ballpark amounts of solvent, base and vinegar to use? If I did this one I was just going to switch out the naptha for heptane in the 4th step.
Also, the bestine I have was originally purchased to extract cannabinoids from pipe tar/resin. It worked but I later read about how you're supposed to do an evap test. So I did the test and heptane left a hardly noticeable, thin, foggy film behind so I tossed the extract. Is that film bad or what? If so is there an easy way I could distill it without lab equipment?