Then normally you would pour off the mother liquor, and wash the isolate with more cold alkane to achieve purity.
What did this isolate look like when you received it? Yellow and waxy?
Is it the lighting or itās a bit yellowish?
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Its a bit yellowish and cakes upā¦ Like waxes on filter paperā¦
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Iām trying to learn here so please donāt Interoperate this any other way.
so if a compound tested is 99.4% cbd cant only .6 be waxes or am I totally off with that math?
Iām so confused as of late. I know there can be a variance with the testing. I have a degree in statistics and fully understand standard deviation and the whole nine and this can be up to 5-10% off in potency. But could this really be that much waxes?
Why is the weed industry so different than common knowledge. Never seen more 105-115% cannabinoid tests and more fuckery then what happens in cannabis
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And the CCLT COA came back at 99.7% so I have a feeling the potency isnāt less than 97%. Yeah the math doesnāt work out.
Baseball size chunk of isolate dissolved in Methanol. All the white particles are lipids. Methanol is lipophilic so this is somewhat of a room temperature winterization.
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I am no density expert but how much would these lipids weigh if filtered off?
I dont know. Thats why I want to exchange. I will just eat the loss on what I have already processed.
Thatās your request to them, to swap out the remaining āisolateā you have from them for a new batch, right?
As I wrote in my two first comments.
If the data in the COA are only qualitative data (i.e. based on area% of the detected components), then this can be legit data. Waxes are generally not assayed in such type of analysis. Only cannabinoids would be detected.
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Did it look that yellow when you picked it up? Or you trusted it was good as well as the weight by not checking it? It sounds like to make it right would be to swap it out. That COA can in no way represent the product that you have. Have you sent any off for testing yet?
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I rather see them crashing next to each other, and then later mixed together upon grinding. And I was not imagining that much of waxes.
The isolate may be rather 90%ish.
I am curious how much that flocculant lipid mass weighs.
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I think all three of us are on the same page here. Sure, itās got some waxy impurities in thereā¦ but 50% canāt be right. 10% might explain the pale yellow color but still when a customer is telling you 50% waxes then the only step to take from here is to get it tested again.
We can all guess what we think could have happened or what the impurities are and assume foul play but it just needs to get tested again before anything is returned/swapped etc. Personally I think it should have got tested before they even started playing around with conversionsā¦ Am I the only one who thinks itās reckless to start running conversions on like 100kg of isolate that you havenāt even verified the test results? Itās not like itās too expensive to doā¦
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I didnāt even check at the facility. I gave been getting so much good isolate that I let my guard down
Im exaggerating a bit when i say only 40 kilos from 120ā¦70 could be possible thoughā¦ This stuff was horrible
Youāre so welcome. Itās been a pleasure to work with you!
I was also short 9 kilos. I have used about 50. So i would bringing back 61 + cover for short 9.
Total weight of 70kg CBD
If i trade for 80% distillate it would be an 800g credit for each kilo of that trade material.
Yes I would be satisfied with an exchange.
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