We would love that link hombre
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I didn’t realize 3A zeolites would adsorb cannabinoids at all. A little concerned all of a sudden because I’ve been using them to dry heptane before CRC style polishing. Ruh roh
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@Roguelab hit the dm and let’s talk dollars
The patent has been posted multiple times on this forum
It’s catalytic decarboxylation over an activated alumina column
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No worry s it s not an attraction of pore size but of polarity acidic cannabinoids are atracted by the zeolite
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Sounds like it’s probably still a good idea to not run heptane with acidic cannabinoids over 3A molsieve unless I plan on eluting them with toluene? Or would a sufficient flush of heptane pull them eventually?
There’s loads of other drying agents I could use, I just have a shitload of 3A already in the lab
You run with heptane to split the cannabinoids
You flush with touleen to get the cannabinoids of the molsieves
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Gotcha. I appreciate you walking me through that
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Indeed.
I talked to a biotech pro, and hemp having upto 25%-30% cbx is probably a record holder in these secondary plant metabolite production terms…
I thing the industry wont change in this manner.
But thc free methids will eventually be obsolete eith gmo thc free strains coming soon…
Some companys did it long ago but this is soemthing you will have a hard time finding the breeding program and finding the right genetics, even more so than the elusive than the 40y old patent hunt…
So the yeast got no chance, but the gmo sytnese knocked out plants do…
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