Long story short I was in the middle of a BLAB with 112g MHRB. I was at the stage where the water/lye/MHRB/vinegar was completely pulverised and looked like a "basic soup" just an extremely dark red. More like black, but hints of purple/red.
I completed several d-limonene pulls which were deposited into a 1000ml separatory funnel. A number of factors resulted in ~10 months of this lab situation just sitting around. I was having big time difficulties finding a tall thin container to do limonene pulls from (for ~3L of liquid not including limonene), that combined with other responsibilities just put this extraction on the back-burner.
I know this was colossally stupid (especially not to put it in a cupboard, possible legal consequences, etc.) but College just took essentially all my free time and suddenly 10 months passed and I realized I just left the jars out in the open. Didn't really think about it because the room wasn't getting sunlight, but artificial light is also bad right? ...
Clear glass containers. Not really in a dark place. The room doesn't get much sunlight, but I turn lights on it at least every day and occasionally open the window etc.
I'm just wondering how significant the effects of oxygen/light on these mixtures should be.
I plan on obviously figuring this out first hand by completing the extraction, but I'm just curious if anyone has first hand or projected outcomes to share?
P.S. Because I can't find a tall/thin container large enough to hold all the liquid (pulling with a turkey baster in a wide jug is a huge pain) I've split the basic soup between two containers, but the powderised MHRB was left behind. This shouldn't really affect yield should it? the liquid part of the soup probably has all the spice by now?