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#1 Posted : 2/2/2012 12:26:44 AM

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I'm about to changa up a couple of grams and noticed i had some acetone in the garage and started wondering what works better. I have always used 99% IPA and found it works great.
What works better/faster? or whats preferred by you?
 

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#2 Posted : 2/2/2012 1:10:14 AM

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I've used IPA and have never seen a reason to use anything else. I have some acetone but it has a very strong smell. It doesn't say on the bottle that it has anything else added. Does acetone have a strong smell?
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#3 Posted : 2/2/2012 1:17:50 AM

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DMTripper wrote:
Does acetone have a strong smell?


Up close it has a very enveloping intense smell, but it's not something that will odourise a room with normal usage.
 
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#4 Posted : 2/2/2012 2:40:17 AM

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I'm using IPA
 
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#5 Posted : 2/2/2012 8:37:12 AM

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Acetone won't dissolve harmalas properly. IPA will. IPA wins.
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#6 Posted : 2/2/2012 9:43:07 AM

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The only reason I use acetone is because IPA is not available to retail consumers in my country...
 
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#7 Posted : 2/2/2012 12:56:05 PM

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IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW
 
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IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW


it's hard to find pure ethanol where i live...70% is the most potent ive found
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#9 Posted : 2/6/2012 1:26:33 AM

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endlessness wrote:
IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW


^This. I use 99% lab grade EtOH
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#10 Posted : 2/6/2012 7:11:18 AM

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would everclear work better than ipa? I have no idea where i would find 96% grain ethanol
 
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#11 Posted : 2/10/2012 10:55:32 AM

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I thought everclear was 95% ethanol? At least the kind I used for a salvia tincture was... it worked miserably for that application due to it being extremely difficult to dose 95% ethanol sublingually!

Does the process go faster with slightly warm solvent? Not heated, maybe just a quick hot-water bath prior to using it?
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It's been reported that salvia tinctures work best diluted with 1 part warm water. Yes warmth speeds up the process.
 
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#13 Posted : 2/10/2012 11:39:53 AM

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hm. I still have the tincture floating around, perhaps I will try thatI do they retain potency well? they're about 6 months old, kept in both refrigerators and a car in winter...
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It will be just as potent.
 
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Indoril_Nerevar wrote:
endlessness wrote:
IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW


it's hard to find pure ethanol where i live...70% is the most potent ive found


if the 30% is water, youre good to go, it just will take longer to dry
 
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#16 Posted : 2/18/2012 12:38:32 AM

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i frequently use vodka i fractionaly distilled as a solvent so 95% ethanol as unless you completely seal it off from air it forms an azeotrope with air causing to lower the 100% or pure to 95% were it finds its happy equilibrium i think acetone is more useful as it evaporates quicker than isopropanol and becuase it usally purer than isopropanol
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