I'm using an acid-base extraction. I have reduced the acid tea (pH = 2-3) fronm 500g of bark down to approximately 2.5L. I basified my solution to pH 13. I have added 750mL of shellite into the warm solution, but I am not seeing the shellite separate.

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Any advice on how to aid separation?

Cheers!

Hi welcome to the nexus please make an intro thread and search for emulsions that will give you the answers.

OK here's a step-by-step guide on what you need to do to get rid of the emulsion:

- Click the "Search" button in the top right corner of the page
- Type "emulsion" in the search bar
- Click on one of the hundreds of threads that are bound to pop up

You should be able to figure it out from there.

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