Ash wrote:Noman's TEK says use distilled water. Is this important and why so? SWIM uses tap water, and can't think of a reason why this is not sufficient compared to distilled water. Ask your local water board for a list of the metals and contaminants left in your supply after treatment...you will probably never drink it raw again...  As for xtractions...its just cleaner and less chance of a 'reaction' from contaminants... Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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A lot of the teks are old... There really is one best of all solid way to do an STB, and it has not been written as a tek, which is a bummer. Look at the supposed yields from that tek also, they are pretty low compared to how much we are accustomed to yielding these days. Art Van D'lay wrote:Smoalk. It. And. See.
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Ash wrote:Is this important and why so? it's not. any minerals in water will remain in water, not migrate to the nonpolar solvent. if you happen to get residual water in the NPS, dry it over magnesium sulfate (epsom salts). "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Orion wrote:A lot of the teks are old... There really is one best of all solid way to do an STB, and it has not been written as a tek, which is a bummer. I see a bright future for you where you write this one down Orion.  "Orions Star Tec" Kind regards, The Traveler
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Well i haven't created anything revolutionary, but there is quite a bit of info and slight variations which make an STB that much more in depth and reliable. Maybe they should all be in one place? Hmmmm... maybe I should write it up. Art Van D'lay wrote:Smoalk. It. And. See.
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benzyme wrote:Ash wrote:Is this important and why so? it's not. any minerals in water will remain in water, not migrate to the nonpolar solvent. if you happen to get residual water in the NPS, dry it over magnesium sulfate (epsom salts). exactly - not to mention that any plant material you'll try to extract with distilled water will be by default enriched by all these trace metals naturally found in plants (as well as tap water) If you can drink your tap water then it's more than good for extractions. Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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Orion wrote:Well i haven't created anything revolutionary, but there is quite a bit of info and slight variations which make an STB that much more in depth and reliable. Maybe they should all be in one place?
Hmmmm... maybe I should write it up. Please remove that maybe. :-} Kind regards, The Traveler
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Orion wrote:Well i haven't created anything revolutionary, but there is quite a bit of info and slight variations which make an STB that much more in depth and reliable. Maybe they should all be in one place?
Hmmmm... maybe I should write it up. Ohhh, And what will you name it? 
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S.T.B. (Set...Toke...BLASTOFF...)  Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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