October 22’ Member of the Month - @moronnabis AND @Pupparoo Tied for the Win :)

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I’d like to nominate @moronnabis for his technical posts.

Butane works but no theory! A few dozen hints

2019 Jul;284:108-116. doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.04.008. Epub 2019 Apr 12. DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.04.008 Tables are from the supplementary data files. This is an amazing article on its own, but offers a lot of information about “why butane works”. Background: By some mysterious and undefined process, Butane extracts THCA from Trichomes. But once you have purified THCA, most of us know how almost impossible it is to redisolve THCA in either Butane or Pentane, even at room temp, …

Zeolite and polymer resins for THC remediation

Well…yes THCA has its own pKa property…for the carboxylic acid moiety. If it were to interact with an amine …which also has its own pKa. It is all dependent on the pH, what exact complexes can be made. All told, all weak acids and weak bases act together to effect a buffer action with regards to pH of the total solution. But they also act together h-bonded solution networks. Or ion pairs…I have posted paper references on all the different forms of carboxylic acids In both protic and aprot…