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What would be the best solvent to use for a 1 step crude extraction of THC? Acetone maybe?
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The Root
 
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yep - acetone it evaps clean and fast too a second step - adding activated charcoal then filtering it may clean it up alot also one could bake the final product in the oven to decarboxylate it butane also works well. really well. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
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IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
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John
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Acetone an alcohol pulling too much gunk Great results were achieved with diethylether and petrolether maybe other ethers (e.g methylethylether) would work as well As a kemist I never met ILPT in physical form and never talk to him. He share his wisdom, trough my mind, telepathicly only. Please don`t prosecute me, for his possible illegal activities. He is bonkers about chemistry and doesn`t even exist in this primitive reality !!!
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Thanks Phlux. I was looking at your thread, but I didn't want to hijack it with my own questions.
What is the advantage to decarboxylating the THC? Also I know that activated charcoal is for a lot of things but where can you find pure activated charcoal by itself? Any local sources at all?
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The Root
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Yeah that sounds right "Acetone an alcohol pulling too much gunk" The portion swim was given was extracted with naptha - it seemed to do a good job. Try get the activated charcoal at a pharmacy - in edible capsule form. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
...unlike the "blind leading the blind". we are more akin to a group of blind-from-birth people who have all simultaneously been given the gift of sight but have no words or mental processing capabilites to work with this new "gift".
IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Quote: ‹Jorkest› the wall is impenetrable as far as i can tell Quote: ‹xtechre› cheese is great He who packs ur capsules - controls your destiny.
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I know it doesn't sound very appealing really but wouldn't starter fluid work well then? The solvents that are in starter fluid are all very non-polar correct?
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i have never extracted THC before and i LOVE cannibis.....anyone care to share a great tek? any non-toxic (d-limonene) methods figured out? how is extracted THC consumed? oooooh....this has me excited!! LOVE AND GRATITUDE!! "Rise above the illusion of time and you will have tomorrow's
wisdom today."
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The Root
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i recon half the enjoyment is flavour - bho seems to be the best for that if a concentrated extract is required. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
...unlike the "blind leading the blind". we are more akin to a group of blind-from-birth people who have all simultaneously been given the gift of sight but have no words or mental processing capabilites to work with this new "gift".
IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Quote: ‹Jorkest› the wall is impenetrable as far as i can tell Quote: ‹xtechre› cheese is great He who packs ur capsules - controls your destiny.
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SWIM did some reading up on the decarboxylation of THC that you were talking about. That's really interesting. SWIM never knew that THC in it's natural form was mostly inactive and needed heat applied in order to become psychoactive in humans.
So, if you make hash oil with butane all you have to do is smoke it in order to make it active, but what about ingesting it orally? Do you have to apply some kind of heat to it in some way before you can use it that route?
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butane
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water use ice water extraction
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SWIM has always used Acetone and has always ended up with great super potent smoke-able product... & it takes no time at all.... It's not a super clean end product, but SWIM quite likes some of the extra junk it pulls as he feels that adds to the taste a little.... Didn't know about the active charcoal clean up step, SWIM will give that a try soon...... thnx "Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous" - TMK
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i think the key to very high purity thc extraction is to start with a different solvent---WATER.
ice water to be exact.
ice water + mechanical stirring + silkscreen filtering/collecting
this way, by the time u get around to using fancy solvents, there isn't any plant matter left to extract gunk from and u will need far less solvent.
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The Root
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much better plan is a 30 second hot naptha wash. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
...unlike the "blind leading the blind". we are more akin to a group of blind-from-birth people who have all simultaneously been given the gift of sight but have no words or mental processing capabilites to work with this new "gift".
IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Quote: ‹Jorkest› the wall is impenetrable as far as i can tell Quote: ‹xtechre› cheese is great He who packs ur capsules - controls your destiny.
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How much active charcoal is used for how many ml solvent? The things that IS has a meaning,
but it`s what IS NOT that make them usefull
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LucidLemonade wrote:SWIM has always used Acetone and has always ended up with great super potent smoke-able product... & it takes no time at all....
It's not a super clean end product, but SWIM quite likes some of the extra junk it pulls as he feels that adds to the taste a little....
Didn't know about the active charcoal clean up step, SWIM will give that a try soon...... thnx Cooling the acetone to at least -5°C should help getting a cleaner end-product since chlorophylle isn't much soluble in acetone at that temperature, however I'm not sure THC and CBDs are still soluble in acetone when it's that cool, but anyway it's the classical tek for quick salvia extraction. To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
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Do you think it's wise to perform such extraction on mid-grade hashish acquired on the black market ?
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Explorateur wrote:Do you think it's wise to perform such extraction on mid-grade hashish acquired on the black market ? I'm not sure but I guess binders will also be dissolved by your solvent so it's probably useless. To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
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Explorateur , try to find out about which binders are commonly used in your area. Police reports, lab reports, forums, *peepz*, etc... Got GVG ? Mhm. Got DMT ? Pandora wrote:Nexus enjoys cutting edge and ongoing superior programming skills of the owner of this site (The Traveler), including recent switching to the .me domain name. I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block Simon Jester wrote:"WTF n00b, buy the $100 vapor pipe or GTFO" Ignorance of the law does not protect you from prosecution
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kjb1891 wrote:What would be the best solvent to use for a 1 step crude extraction of THC? Acetone maybe? no cyclohexane. "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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It seems that dry ice extractions are gaining in popularity among many resin collectors. Ill be trying it myself thursday! Look on youtube there are a few videos of the process. Just take a 160 or 120 micron bubble bag and place it over a five gallon bucket with your trim and a few chunks of dry Ice then turn it upside down and shake. Very easy and very fast.
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