THCA Isolate, melting down and cooling into yellow puck?

For a clear answer - decarboxylation is not affected by vacuum. You’re just dumping energy into the molecule until its arm breaks, vac or pressure doesn’t impact this. And as one previously noted, vacuum environments do tend to struggle with the transfer of energy.

However, the rate of evaporation IS something that’s closely related to vac/pressure. Depending on how rapidly you intend on decarbing, and assuming that you intend on decarbing under vacuum, you may run into some unintended “process loss”

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Looks like low quality isolate ran thru a centrifuge. Typically when I process very tacky crumbles thru the centrifuge it will come out like this, very hard to pull all the color out and clean it up for the “wow” white product most isolate people want so I avoid that starting material. I’m sure it was still thc isolate, just not as pure as you are used to or wanted. Glad they finally sent you something that you wanted!

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did it cool off to be opaque, or is it cool in that transparent form? I got some garbage isolate from Octave Labs earlier this fall by way of some other company. lots of fats in it, tested at KCA at a very low TAC.

That would be YOU sugar pie…

No, instead you heat it and let it cool, and come up with the theory that they sent you a different cannabinoid.

You even have the confidence to call that process “testing”…and apparently have no idea what “indefinitely” means.

:rofl:

Uh huh…can you define what you actually learned from those “tests”?

Per @Thetetraguy: chances are they sent you thca as requested

Just not as pure as you were hoping for…and there are several ways of determining that.

Eg: quick solvent based testing of isolate for fats/waxes.

Alkaline beam test for CBD

And Bromocresol green to confirm decarb

… and learning TLC so you weren’t simply making wild assumptions, would up your game.

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You alright bro?

Clearly not. Trying to educate your dumb ass is pointless…

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Was clear when heated and not clear when cooled.

Opaque is opposite of transparent, and means you CAN’T see through it…

Opaque:

NOT opaque (translucent);

ie the exact opposite of your description…

:man_shrugging:

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Some of you folk are weird.
I come back to the thread to answer questions from somebody and then some rando weed snob shits on me.
I bet you guys are really fun to sesh with.
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Rumor has it…

You came back and got those answers ass backwards…

Fourth grade science…

Yeah, you are totally correct, it’s a “weed snob” who is trying to up your game by trying to teach you simple chemistry…

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