Ok so SWIM used â– PanoraMIX European AB. Swim used 200g of MHRB , according to the tek this should have yielded 4.4 g roughly. 4 Pulls of warm Naptha were done.
Before evaping the Naptha Swim did two Sodium carbonate wash ( not bicarbonate) . Water was tossed out and Naptha Evaporated.
Yields came out very very low, I am wondering if some of the spice might have ended up in the water. Swim used PH papers to make sure solution of Na2CO3 was very basic (13) so no spice should have gone into aqueous solution.
just not sure what has gone wrong, and frustration is starting to take its toll.
Swim is going to try additional pulls with Xylene and see what happens with this..... Some feed aback on the Na2CO3 washes would be nice,.... did SWIM do something wrong?