Any body know? I searched for THC-A Melting point and nothing came up.
THC-A decarboxylates directly into THC, no melt point.
THC-A Chemical and Physical Properties @ PubChem,
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Thank you.
I would disagree. If you take any bulk amount of pure THCA and heat it until it appears thoroughly liquid, then immediately cool it you will not see via LC 100% conversion to THC - there will still be THCA remaining and in considerably quantity. Decarb is not instantaneous at the minimum temperature necessary for glass transition. Regardless of whether you believe this observable phenomenon, there is without a doubt a minimum temperature associated with the glass transition of THCA. However, as you insinuated, this temperature hovers in a region at which decarb does occur at a non-minute rate.
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Does anybody know what temperature that is? Anybody got some crystals and a dream?
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Melting Thca isolate right now and it didn’t seem to start melting/decarbing until 200-220 f
Ive found cbd to melt around 80°C and THCa to melt around 75°C, so real close to decarb
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After melting the diamonds or thca, if not hot enough to smoke, when it cools down does it harden into a glass? Or what is it like?
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had the same idea fuck a filter thca shatter
Nucleation point can be found pretty easy with a microwave and a few oz of isolate to bomb
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Unfortunately pure anhydrous THCA does not absorb microwaves @2.4 GHz to any great extent.
First you need the neutral THCA acid form, prepared from a pH 3 or less solution, in some sort of crystalline form, not necessarily “diamonds”, and a microwave transparent container. Microwave the container at full strength for a few minutes to test for heating. If your container comes out cold you are good to go. Zap crystalline material for 15 sec at a time at about 20% Power rating, do this repeatedly for about 6 times to remove all bound water (chalk like powder is best starting material)…
Once the water is gone and in proper container, you will find THCA does not absorb microwaves.to any great extent.
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You can melt thca powder and it turns into a white “shatter”
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Made this about 6 months ago just as a little proof of concept, powdered some diamonds into a soap mold, placed powder in a beaker and began heating to 195f, diamonds melted into an amber liquid and i poured into the mold and directly into a freezer, one can remove the bubbles caused by the beginning of decarb by doing a slow cool with stirring into a fridge.
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Take a chip of similar material, place on some parchment and pop it in the microwave…I mean the pre-material that you heated to make this disk…if it heats (gets warm/hot) you have a hydrate. the latter can catalyze a bit of that decarbing…
All nice…very nice!
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Thanks for the tip, will definitely give it a try!
I microwave liters of d9 disty for 3 min and it comes out a hot liquid.
The microwave will definitely heat up cannabinoids, i really dont think its due to water in there or anything
How would you go about proving that to yourself?
Test your distillate for moisture, when it comes back with no moisture in it microwave the distillate. When it heats up you know its not because of moisture
Yes microwaves are attuned for water that doesnt mean the wavelengths used wont heat up other things, it just wont be as efficient
The metrc distillate I’ve used always tested with no moisture in it and always heated up in a microwave
…and nothing other than THC in there?
The last stuff i used in metrc tested at 999 mg / g and was clean of moisture. 95% thc with other minors