Hi there

A friend has messed up, he extracted 200g of MHRB using ASPEN4 Fuel
http://www.aspen.se/File...ad/UK/Aspen%204%20EN.pdf

^^^ says 90% naptha but 0.1 benzine.

Yields where great 1.7g but it stunk of naphtha and was quite greasy and sticky still 24 hours later.

SWIM has acquired pure naphtha
http://www.hex.co.uk/MSDS/upol/s20panelwipe.pdf

SWIM has redissolved the spice in the above but when frozen out, it still smells but not quite as bad as before and it is not sticky at all!

SWIM has redissolved his spice again in the hope that more of the unwanted bits will come out after a nights freeze...

My question is this, how does SWIM clean this spice up, SWIM cannot source any heptane.

SWIM was advised that if SWIM dissolve the spice in some IPA or Acetone (SWIM have both) then let it evap that would free up the naphtha and then that would evap off with the acetone? is this the case?

Without hexane what can SWIM do?

if SWIM put it in some hot water and dropped the ph with sulfuric acid to 3, would it become a salt again and become water soluble??? could SWIM then base it with lye and extract with some pure naphtha? and it would be ok?

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated!

Peace

Can anyone please help!

I don't know what to do

Many Thanks

dmt is soluble in acetone, benzene is not, you could try soluting in acetone then draining acetone from anything left behind and evapping in New container

Ah fantastic!

Would the benzine float on top of the acetone?

Peace

No need to swim here.

"Your honor, I swear those posts were not mine, SWIM is a magical person who posts thousands of post all over the web. Not me"

Thanks for the input wearepeople

Peace

should sinkbenzene is denser than acetone. tip for you by the way, type "(whatever substance you're interested in here) density"into Google and it will pop up at the top of the search results.

thanks treadlightly

that is an excellent tip!

the more dense the substance sinks the less dense substance floats if none miscible of course

so obvious now you have brought it to my attention!

thank you

Peace

A friend finally got round to trying the acetone dissolve method, wow it works, but turns the spice into a semi transparent oil (she did spread the acetone out as it dissolved the spice)

Spreading the oil / goo back and fourth causes it to coagulate and ends up crystallizing!

No naphtha smell any more!!!!

My friend says thanks all who helped ;-)

Peace