Hello!

So someone noticed that their old mixing vessel, which was emptied long ago, had developed obvious x-tals on the walls. In an attempt to redissolve them in Naphtha, they heated the solvent to 70 degrees Celsius and swished it around on the inside. The x-tals refuse to fully disappear, and an oily like consistency develops.

There were little oil bubbles flowing slowly, and it reminded the person of the goo like consistency naphtha takes on during some evaporations.

The Naphtha was poured into a smaller vessel, with a very tiny amount of basified mix that remained, and noticed that in a few minutes an alkaloid saturated goo appeared at the bottom, with some solid yellow x-tals.

If you ignore the colors, and imagine these bubbles flowing slowly in a deep yellow goo, then this is the closest likeness to the bubbles I can find from reference photos.



Pictures will be incoming in a few hours, when an SD card adapter is available.

Can anyone offer their thoughts, or recommend a course of action?

Should one continue swishing hot naphtha on the inside?