Are you getting clays in your beads?
I did beads under vac
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Do beads & media under vac, use 100% cotton pillow sheets.
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Video of 2.3g dissolving in 10ml of acetone : 20min in about 33s
Addition of 2ml of distilled water
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Some particulate but that’s likely not spore related. Which is a good sign. The particulate I would be uncertain of unless media possibly made it through or even just dust tbh.
Filter it over a .2um & then go supersaturation for the amount in solution, you’ll be able to recover that if wanted to. In a clear stone as well.
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So the dust in it gave it tons of nucleation sites,?
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Just crush that shit up, and call it isolate!
What’s your testing looking like? Residuls? Etc?
@StoneD wouldn’t that just create sugar though? These are actually forming up nice facets, and then clouding through. It’s crazy
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Yeah I’m stumped was spitballing
it definitely formed a whole diamond then sugared which can only lead to inclusion
@Soxhlet any ideas
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I’m with you Homie!
Need to try to redissolve it, and run it through a welded .02 (or whatever) disc. A depth filter wouldn’t hurt either. Make a plug right on top of the sintered disc as a type of prefillter. Jar it up, and Rex it to see what happens.
That, or testing. Send some to @kcalabs and let them have a peak at what’s all there…
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Wow I have never seen this level of change
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the .22um isn’t a welded disk
They have 2 kinds I’ve seen a gasket kind
And @Indofab has their new drop in filter that goes submicron
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I can go down to 0.1 micron. That shit will stop aids
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Doesn’t look like moisture in the matter or it would’ve emulsified with additional water.
It’s no fun if you take ALL the risk away!
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This is hand waving, but possibly:
If there was enough volatile solvent trapped in the crystalline matrix, especially under pressure, could fracture the crystals, maybe.
If THC-a wasn’t so hydrophobic, I would consider water absorption similar to what happens to hard candy.
Really I’ve no idea and am really curious to what happened here
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This is just the solute precepting from solution, the h20 changed the solubility of the solution.
If it was done slower it is possible to grow crystals.
https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2010/210/
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I have noticed when exposing the affected mason jars of solution to higher temperatures that the facets/nucleations start to dissolve/degrade. From the base room temperature of 64-66F to 85-90F. Do you think that’s due to the potential loss/evaporation of the anti solvent? Essentially removing the antisolvent that is causing the crystallization? If this is a case of antisolvent crystallization
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Yes, hence why the solubility strength of the terpenes suddenly increase as the anti-solvent leaves, causing the terpenes to now act as a solvent and dissolve the THCa and uncontrollably sugar.
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What filter do you use?
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Stir fry
Found another jar that is starting to turn like the others but this one is happening PRE separation. Done about a month prior to the images posted originally in the thread. Diamond structure is reminiscent of the first puck that changed over a weekend post separation.
Starting from the bottom and moving its way up the structures.
Still super weird; haven’t figured out what’s happening.
Changed out every line of our system, full dismantle and clean of every piece/solvent tanks, swapped every slightly worn gasket/compression fitting, rebuilt pump; still seem to have the issue.
Next steps would be to try without filtration/different media to see if it is in-fact the filtration.
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