I mean…yeah? Sort of? Call it what you want but at somepoint we end up with a unified term people are using for a specific thing. Crystillate/Liquid Diamonds/DCDiamonds/etc… if you hate on marketing you’re just hating money. Doesn’t mean the quality is bad, but you gotta hustle.
You can call it disty but you’re doing yourself a disservice, it’s a higher purity, higher grade, better output.
We make a high quality blend with no heat melted diamonds, we add a special blend off non crystalizing cbd and minors and terpenes. Its a light gold in carts. The cbd opens up the thc receptors to heighten the effect of the converted thca in the process of vaping it. Its an elourtrous clean high
The perspective of the OP seems to focus on the target compound to differentiate between distillate and liquid diamonds. In this case, there isn’t much of a difference.
However, looking at this from a reagent purity standpoint, there is a big difference: the impurity profile. Recrystallization is one of the best ways to make high purity THCa with very few impurities. Decarbing leaves you with a high purity THC with perhaps some other cannabinoids in the >1%-3% range if you ReX quickly. Distillate on the other hand (depending on the way it was extracted) will have 10-20% minor cannabinoids that can only be purified via chromatography. This is the difference between a crude product (distillate) and an impure isolate (liquid diamonds).
I’d say scientifically speacking the OP is incorrect and they are different by their impurity profile (most of the time). When making concentrates however, we most often focus THC content and ignore the impurities, so from a practical perspective, specifically if your customer base doesn’t care about minor cannabinoids, then their point is quite strong.
Everything else is just how you process it and semantics; for something to be distillate it needs to have been distilled. You can turn your liquid diamonds (technically not distillate) into a short path, and then legally call it distillate if you feel so inclined, but now I’m splitting hairs.
Yea it became clear that I fundamentally did not understand the process of creating liquid diamonds at the time of creating this post. I am glad I asked the question though, because my mind has been changed for the better. I definitely see the benefits of a liquid diamond product opposed to a straight up distillate, due to this difference in the impurity profile. However, with that being said molecules can co-crystallize and most quality distillates have nowhere near 10-20% impurities.
That’s assuming your THCa is 99%. Which a lot of times, it is not, let’s be real.
Also, distillate can very easily be over 90% THC. I’ve seen it at 97-98% D9 before.
You aren’t the first person to say “liquid diamonds” have less impurities, but I just don’t understand how that can be taken as fact when most of the diamonds being decarbed are not 99% THCa, more like 92-95%, and at the same time distillate can be in that same range of purity.
I am not saying they are identical, but the way people call one “hot dog water” and act like melted THCa is god’s gift to earth is so strange to me. When the distillate is of high quality, there is almost no difference.
Just my $0.02.
edit all that being said - I have never gone through the entire process of recrystallizing my THCa in a secondary solvent, crushing it, rinsing it, and then decarbing it. Maybe that’s why I am yet to see a huge difference between the two?