Made a slight mistake last night, seemed like it was something worth sharing for whatever use the info could be to someone. I was bored, had a couple hours to kill before work so I thought id try to poke around at the last of my unfinished work. I have some solvent in a jar that has just been collecting and is more than I wanted to try to freeze. I took out a pan, threw water in it and put it on the stove, and put the jar on top. I let the temp settle ~150f and it sat like that for about an hour to try to evap a little before work. Obviously it didn't budge much so I thought id split it into two jars to be more efficient. I made the mistake of thinking I didn't need a funnel and ended up getting a bit of solvent in the pan which agitated me because I know better. I tried to recover the solvent by taking the water from the top of the pan and putting it into a jar, and thats when it got interesting. I watched the puddles of naptha on the water evap and then out of nowhere I have a couple white crystals hanging out at the bottom of the jar. This was a relief and I poured the entire pan into the jar and now have a small collection at the bottom.

I am going to assume this is what is happening, as the solvent evaps it stays in puddles, ends up bringing all the dmt together, crystallizes, dmt falls while the rest of the fat and oils stay at the top of the water. I think this might be an easy way to get clean crystals from acacia as my solvent was a dark yellow and the stuff at the bottom of the water jar is very white. Im going to try to duplicate my accident with the remaining solvent after I let it freeze for a few days to see what happens. Now I just need to figure out how I should go about removing the crystals from the water.

Hey hey,

Please be safe with heating up solvents!

Health and safety--extraction guidelines


Also, your writing is difficult to follow, could you please clarify your method? Maybe an ordered list of steps and observations?



Thanks,
wearepeople

My mistake, yes sometimes I don't really convey my thoughts properly into text in a way that is easy for others to read. As for safety with the solvent, my bad again for not being clear on that. I have an electric stove, heating the solvent that is in a glass jar sitting in water that is in a pan that to be honest is probably a little too big for even cooking on the heater used. The temperature is set to hang around 150F which is high enough that it should help evaporate while staying safely below the autoignition temperature of the solvent and is below the evaporation temperature for the alkaloid. I believe this particular setup should pose minimal risk for a fire.

As for method it was a mistake really, but what ill likely do is take maybe 100ml of the cleanest water I can find within reasonable effort and preheat it ~150-160f in a glass pan. Then a little at a time I will add the used yellow solvent (after a few days of freeze precipitation) and see what I can recover from the solvent so I don't have to worry about storing it somewhere. This is the last of my solvent for the last of my acacia and I really have no idea if/when I will be up for wanting more.

Please look into the difference between flash point and auto ignition temperatures.

Wikipedia has a wonderful article: search flash point.

The flash point of naphtha is very low and an electric stove could possibly act as an ignition source.

What happened to the yellow component when the nonpolar liquid was evaporated?