I said it’s more like distillate. For the fourth time
and how do you condense that concept into a marketable term?
Well duh decarbed thca wont crystallize which is why youd decarb it to put it into a cart
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We should call this novel product “shatter”
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Call it reclaim.
I’ve seen plenty of THCA recrystallized in my rig, just not massive diamonds lol. Tiny bits around the mouth piece that need cleaned after a day.
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Suppose it would technically resemble closely to rso or eto decarb extract. When it comes to “residual” content structures present. Or maybe a “spectrum of misc content”. But it would be like assuming a extractor would be willing to take a refined batch with or without crystalization occured, and then bake it out to a active batch. Like d9 content. Seems suspect to anyone that a extractor tells that to
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Technically incorrect.
Purification by crystallization is a process driven by the high affinity binding of the crystalline surface binding sites…
So when one has a “diamond” crystal the purity is far greater than any rso or EtOH decarb extract.
Supposing “technically resemble closely “ is so far off the target it needs to be pointed out.
My choice to mention Diamonds as a starting material is to simplify concepts, because of known purity.
RSO and EtOH decarbed extracts have thousands of impurities present in significant concentrations. Think Soup.
If you have a 99% THCA in” diamond” crystal: , and you heat it ever so so carefully to a liquid state avoiding decarboylation, and then let it recrystallize…you end up with 99% THCA in “alternative crystalline “ crystal-form.
If you heat it to a temperature sufficient to decarb…you end up with THCA.d9THC and numerous break down products.
There is no reason why the Cannibis Market can not “call “ decarbed diamonds “ liquid diamonds” …mainly because most people have no idea how to carefully heat THCA to a liquid state without decarboxylation. If you liquify diamonds and they remain “liquid”. You have d9THC . As @pdxcanna points out. It really means “high quality d9THC”.
@Lightbulb , this should be an apparent distinction made from the comparison you make to RSO and EtOH. Implied PURITY.
Market slang….but when considering a technical discussion it really has no place.
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I do not disagree with most of what you’ve said.
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do you keep it under constant vacuum during you run time? and what is your average decarb time for material added?