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The Glossary - A brief dictionary of commonly used words in our industry. We wish this to be a collaborative effort. There will be varying points of view. Use the discussion thread to hash it out!
Concentrates, End Products (?)
- Bubble Hash
- Shatter
- Wax
- Butter (Budder)
- Batter
- RSO
- Tincture
- Distillate
- Sauce
- Crystals
Processing Terms:
- Decarboxylation
- Extraction
- Winterization
- Purging
- Evaporation
- Distillation
- Chromatography
- Crystallization
- Oleoresin
Equipment Terms:
- Extractor
- Vacuum Vessel
- Vacuum Oven
- Vacuum Pump- Rotary Vane
- Vacuum Pump- Dry Scroll
- Vacuum Pump- Diaphragm/Membrane
- Glassware
- Buckner Funnel
- Fritted Glass
- Flasks
- Reactors
- Radley Reactors
- Freezers
- Chromatography Column
Solvent Terms:
- Ethanol
- Butane
- Propane
- Heptane
- Naptha
- Methanol
Uncategoriezed
- Azeotrope
- Flashpoint
- Polarity
- Miscible
- Hydrocarbon (including conjugated)
- Volitiles
- Solubility
- Mobile Phase
- Stationary Phase
- Phase Transition
- Sublimation
- Boiling Point
- Microns (vacuum)
- Liquid Liquid Extraction
- PTFE (Teflon)
- Gas Ballast
- 14/20, 24/40, etc. (ground glass joints)
- Joint grease
- Keck clamp
- Simple distillation
- Fractional distillation
- Vacuum distillation
- Molecular distillation (mean free path molecular flow)
- Ambient
- Fast, medium, slow paper lab filters
- Kimwipe
- Spectrophotometer
- GCMS
- Pirani sensor
- Thermocouple
- KF-16, KF-25, etc.
- Polymer
- Alumina
- Silica gel
- Celite
- Aerosol
- Hydrosol
- Gas
- Vapor