modern wrote:Does mescaline acetate always go gooey/oily? I dried my vinegar pull and it was completely dry but I let it sit and it turned oily I assume either pulling moisture from the air or because not cold enough since acetic acid melting point is 16.6C?
It is very common to observe crude mescaline acetate as being gooey.
Hygroscopic salts ("
pulling moisture from the air"
) are not exactly uncommon. Any small excess of acetic acid could enhance liquefaction too. This could occur through the formation of a biacetate anion which subsequently dissociates in the presence of atmospheric moisture, at least maybe. It's also to do with how mescaline and acetic acid are relatively weak as a base and an acid, respectively.
The bit about the temperature and the m.p. of acetic acid is something of a red herring. If you dried with heat, surely it would have stayed melted. And take a look at mesc sulfate - the m.p. of sulfuric acid is far lower than that of acetic acid and yet mesc sulfate crystals are nice and stable.
What's all the brown powdery stuff in your product? It looks as though you could have done with being a little more careful in the separation of various phases during the extraction.
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