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Hamishly
#1 Posted : 8/22/2023 6:15:31 PM
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So we made a 150 lye to 1500 mL of distilled water solution and let that dissolve and sit. We added 150 grams of powdered bark and stirred, we let it rest and added 150ml of naptha and stirred it for 12 hours. We let it rest but didn't get a separation. We added about 100ml more naptha, stirred for a while and let it rest and still are not getting a separation. Any ideas? Thanks
 

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#2 Posted : 8/22/2023 9:01:18 PM

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Stirring with naphtha for 12 hours seems rather excessive and is likely to have produced an emulsion, with the aid of the bark particles. A few minutes of gentle stirring would have sufficed.

Have you tried looking up 'emulsion' using the search function? There are a few tricks to breaking emulsions, all of which have been described repeatedly on the forum. One easy one to try is adding more lye.

150g bark is quite a lot to be committing to a (first time?) extraction. 50g or even 25g would be a better amount to practice with. One of the problems is the difference in scaling of surface area compared to volume, which is crucial in the extraction environment.

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Hamishly
#3 Posted : 8/22/2023 11:07:46 PM
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Helpful, thank you
 
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#4 Posted : 8/23/2023 2:26:39 AM

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Hamishly wrote:
Helpful, thank you

Any particular part that was the most helpful? Did it get your emulsion sorted, for example?

Please share some pics of your product if you can!




“There is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
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