Chlorophyll in distillation

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Crude to distillate

You can clean up any extract very well by boiling it first in 70/30 iso/water rubbing alcohol. This will cause any green chlorophyls to swell up along with the waxes which get denatured too by the alcohol. Iso and water form an azeotrope so the iso will not boil off completely at first but the mix will become a higher percentage of water as you boil it off. Extract will drop out of solution as the percentage of water increases and you will be left with an emulsion of water and compound. Putting …

I tried this once, can’t say I was successful