Crystals crashed out after winterization.
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Woah dude
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@Shadownaught can help you with that, I believe
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Nice! That’s some potent crude! What is it? CBD?
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Ever consider selling sea urchins as a novelty product? Those are gorgeous! Nicely done! The lattice in the first picture definitely looks like CBD, but I haven’t ever seen crystals like that bottom picture.
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We distribute hardwood carbon that is similar to A, and a steamed prewashed carbon that is similar to B. Soak your carbon in water, drain the water, test water pH…thats gonna be the best way to know. Most carbons have wide pKa ranges so reported pH will say like 4-8, basically useless info. Steamed carbons seem to be the most neutral in my experience. We also distribute an alkaline carbon that you could mix with another carbon to have a better shot at neutral conditions.
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Old comment but how did y’all manage to blow up a diffusion pump?
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Not sure I wasn’t there. But I was told from my colleagues that the tech demonstrating from hydrion scientific broke it during the demonstration. They said there may have been too much butane left in the crude? Never found out the real cause of destruction but they never fixed it. I stopped working for that company a few months ago
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B80 and T5 are neutral bentonites
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Ya, CBD 
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That would do it! Butane vaporized at over 150°C under vacuum into superheated boiling pump oil vapor? Yep. Kablooie!
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Updates on some other side projects and random shit from regular production.
Again, only working with high THC feedstock.
Changed up some collection parameters for the CXE portion of our extraction in order to minimize passover from our heavy liquid/sesquiterpene fraction, and have seen crystal formation post rotovap on a number of occasions, testing is looking like we’re seeing marginally higher cannabinoid content by mass percent, and I’m attributing the more frequent appearance of crystalline structure post evap to that.
Also running a couple experiments based on my observation that the structural differences I’m seeing between jars have a lot to do with remaining solvent %. Higher solvent % seems to cause longer spikes, whereas a lower % seems to give me the tighter structure that seems to be pretty ubiquitously referred to here as urchins. I have noticed that if I grow a jar of urchins and then drain the supernatant from the mass, I will see spiky structures that are similar to what I see in higher solvent % jars form on top of the denser urchin mass below.
Also working on crystallization in our separated terpene fraction, I’ll update if anything comes from that little jar.
Attaching a bunch of pics, lmk if anyone has any questions.
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Day 7 . Not sure what to do now.
This was in glass with no lid or vac.
I figure it’s best to give it more time and not mess with it.
Would capping it with a lid speed things up?
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What was the temps used for formation? What was the temps used for purging?
Is this thcA or CBD
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It is THCa in ethanol .
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I used 95-99F for the initial formation .
I still has not been fully purged . If I would have to guess it had about 15 % ethanol when I poured it onto a dish .
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Thank You to everyone and anyone who has viewed my thread. It makes me extremely happy to have created a thread of interest. It hit me last night when I noticed the amount of views, that this thread is probably being viewed by not just the community but to random people searching “Ethanol Diamonds” on Google, which made me smile. I also wonder if my thread is on Reddit anywhere, I digress though; Thank You @All who viewed my thread.
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Looks like the start of some good crashing! let em keep forming. Im doing etoh crystals and they form completely different than BHO crystals. Very long and pointy but they will clump together. wont be big faceted ones and they break apart pretty easily, still trying to produce those big rocks with strictly etoh but the problem is the ethanol condenses in a capped jar so pressure build up is hard. thinking about adding some Butane at the very end to cap and let sit so the pressure builds. got the oven set at 105 tho…
I wouldnt cap it. in my experience with etoh when we jarred and capped it either wouldnt crash or it stopped the formation of crystals. but ive only had a couple runs now.
also doing pyrex tek… cant tell from your pic if its in a jar or a pyrex
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