Hello,

I've done this san pedro extraction with limonene.

I added 500 g'd of NaOH with 5 Liters of water. Than I added 450 g's of san pedro. I've mixed it all well and than I've added (and pulled) 1 litre of D-Limonene and pulled this. I've done this a second time. Than I added water with HCL and when I pulled the water from the D-Limonene it had a ph of 3. This tells me all of the HCL is used to create MescalineHCL. And I added slightly too much. Than I vaporized the water (I wasn't there when It happened) and all what was left was like 2,5 g of black powder (my firstn suggestion was burned carbon offcourse). Now I added a little water to the dark stuff and than I filtrated it. De filtrate is just dark liquid, only a little bit doesn't rea;;y solute into water. Maybe it isn't burned carbon? What can it be? Someone that has the same problem?

Thanks!
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greets

Can one use Toluene instead of D-limonene for the D-limonene tek?

did you test the ph of the np, or water before acid was added?
how basic it is can be telling
problem with most salting teks as writen...i'll add some more when they let me out of the play pen...

basically, your ecxess acid pulled extra crud along w/mesc.
i'd recrystalize, others would suggest cold acetone grind/wash