Heard a lot of people tossing around Celite or DE as essentially having the same effect on carbon scrubbing material. This is totally not true after finally trying some Celite 545 for myself, the color difference with the DE was significantly better then the CElite.
Just my 2 cents
Brand is everything
As activated carbon each brand with diffrent results
I asume it s the same with all powders exept fir silica60
This was carbon chem Celite 545. I hold them as a relative standard no?
I buy organic DE from prime and it works great.
same. Sticking with it now. Just wanted to try Celite with all the people talking about it as if it was interchangeable with DE
I think that DE like AC comes in diffrent flavors and that carbon chems is a filter enhancer but not an absorbent
Diatumacius earth is a absorbent thou so yes diffrent brands might give better adsorption results
Depends on variety. Deposits are key and then sizes and shapes etc.
A stain remover. DE can absorb more than twice it’s weight in liquid. It is effective at lifting stains on carpet and furniture as well as grease and oil spills on concrete floors.
Our DE is sourced from one of the cleanest freshwater food grade mines and screened for impurities to produce consistently pure diatomaceous earth.
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10lbs for 25.00
Super cheap
I use Harris Food Grade D. E.
I’ve been using the Harris brand too.
There are about 2000 grades of de available. Celite is just a trade name for a conglomerate that sells and owns 30% of the mine locations where they pull thier brand product. Celite also has close to 1000 designations and types. Celite 545 itself comes in 100 types basically depending on the source and processing applied.
Really it’s a crap shoot. You have to find that best one from whoever and make sure you like it and stick with it since different types affect filtration and effectivity.
I had an accidental blow through with DE and decided to run the crude to see if anything funky happened. Saw a 55% conversion to CBC which I assume was actually Delta 10. Tried it on another batch at 3% in the flask to see if it was a fluke and saw the same conversion ratio. Thought that was interesting.
also came out almost completely clear, very similar to delta 8 i have to assume the more alkaline nature of DE made the d10. Would love some feedback if anyone has any theories.
It was the salts. De is ground based generally. They come from unrinsed salt water beds from gazillion years ago that formed. The salt from generally de is what probably caused that.
Appreciate the feedback, dude! I’ll run a few more trials and see if I can pin down what you’re specualting. Make sense in theory.
That brand that I posted claims they source from fresh water beds. 
I always though Celite was just heat activated D.E. not a brand. You and Google taught me something new.
Yea there’s a small supply of fresh water bed de still some of those have salts. Theres only a couple places where the salt level is super low in the product I believe. And if it wasn’t salt it could be some other things maybe. Even user error.
That’s great what brand of celite where you using exactly