I remember reading some threads about diamond mining with pyrex. I know a lot of people, including me, were doubtful it could be done. I have benefited a lot from this site and would love to contribute back anything I can. So… here is my contribution.
Yes, it can definitely be done. I have no idea how I am doing it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. This batch was winterized in ethoh and reduced to a viscous liquid in the roto. Then I slurped n-pentane into the roto flask, let it dissolve, and poured into the pyrex. Stuck it in the vac oven at 37C and ambient pressure. I am thinking maybe the slight amount of ethoh left slowed evaporation? I honestly dunno. But it’s working. This crystal is just from the side of the pyrex after 4 days.
N-tane and slow crash, I usually covered my trays in parafilm or sometimes just the shitty lids that come with them. Stored in a controlled temp environment.
He’s got Inexperience with butane/it’s a new lab/new job. He’s plenty of experience on the distillation and CBD side, so he’s not entirely a slouch. (He fills in all the bullshit I could never handle in a lab like this)
I’m going to show him that recent post from It’s Not Isobutane?! He’s got a better chemistry background than I, so I’m hoping seeing @Photon_noir’s take on the issue will put him down the rabbit hole, even if we personally can’t rectify it yet
If you’d only worked with butane for the first time this year… you’d have no idea this isn’t a normal state of affairs. Especially if your flavor of the issue is the fast crash, not so much the “medusa”.
This job is a good position for what it is, i’ll say that.
I’ve been told that using well established seed crystals is key. The polymorph of the seed crystal is another important factor to get those large chunks of diamond.
Etoh will extract thca all day it just has to be perfect to crystallize it.
The reason ur pyrex pan tek works so well is the addition of pentane without a doubt. It’ll make major difference everything if extracted and reduced right
Done in butane it’s much harder bc the butane wants to gas off at 32d and the pentane something like 92f
I’ve been told Elliot is nothing but a kind and compassionate individual in person, ya know, but you throw a keyboard into the mix, and everyone’s a warrior.
OP here. I am glad to see this thread got renewed attention. Cannabinoid crystallization is still a very active area of discovery. I have spent the last 5 years of my life doing all kinds of extraction, and before that I spent several years growing, and before THAT I spent several years in pharmaceutical manufacturing, and I still can’t get a grip on it. I know the pentane-Pyrex thing at least worked most of the time. It takes a lot of tedious effort tho. I hear tales of peeps growing half gram diamonds in 'tane in 24 hours and I scarcely believe it.