-Restored op- groovy shatter tek

Curious…

How did you come to the conclusion that terpenes are more soluble in cold solvent?

The solubility of a gas in a liquid will generally decrease when temperature is increased…which is why we purge in ovens.

However, the solubility of most solids (in a liquid solvent) increases with increasing temperature.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-chemistry/chapter/factors-affecting-solubility/

Hydrocarbon & Ethanol extraction are both done at lowered temperatures to avoid picking up unwanteds, not because the cold increases the solubility of our target(s).

While the ethanol cut of a BHO extract will have a slightly different profile than an ethanol extraction of the same material, I don’t see how this tek is a whole lot different than extracting weed with ethanol that has already been used to extract weed. eg Bucket Tek (Cold Ethanol Extraction on a Budget)

Not saying you didn’t make great dabs…but I am suggesting the patent examiner might barf at a) the concept of cold stripping more terps, or b) the “novelty” of extracting weed with ethanol that has weed extract in it already.

Unless of course you can demonstrate that terpenes give off heat when dissolved in ethanol (the reaction is exothermic).

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