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    RxCE who's done it, tips and tricks?!

    I'm an engineer, not a chemist, but my understanding is that salting ISO removes water, which is an undesirable, because it picks up non-targeted water-soluble constituents. Not picking up the undesirable non-targeted water-soluble constituents will reduce your overall yield, but the purity...
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    DIY Hash Tumbler

    We like the Grinning Reaper: 15.20 The Grinning Reaper - GrayWolf's Lair (graywolfslair.com)
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    tube extraction vs butane soak method

    I never thought I would live this long either and given how hard I rode my body and the times that I put it away wet or crashed it into things, I am even more amazed. We are the sum total of our past existences, and the long-term side effects of both age and crashing into things, has made me...
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    tube extraction vs butane soak method

    Nice color and clarity!! How are the aromatics? I looked for my notes on the thermos extraction experiments and found the pictures, but not the notes. The pictures were dated 3-9-2012, and this article 3-25-2014, so a decade plus ago and after we had developed the Terpenator and Lil Terp...
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    QWISO - White Powder?

    Not sure what your first question is, but the total weight does include the cap. GC is Gas Chromatograph report establishing percent THC. ESD is Established Standard Dose. It takes X grams of the essential oil to equal 1 gram of THC, based on the GC results.
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    QWISO - White Powder?

    Note that those cannacaps were 10mg each. That was because there is a wide range of tolerances for THC, et al, so we loaded our caps to allow titration to start at 10 mg and proceed in those increments. That was also the maximum THC per dose allowed by the local laws where my client was...
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    QWISO - White Powder?

    THC-A can be precipitated out in small granules, which can be ground into a powder, but after decarboxylating into THC, it doesn't precipitate crystals. For a more stable cap, I mixed the decarboxylated essential oil it with coconut oil and corn starch, which turned it into silly putty. I then...
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    Cant get BHO right

    10.9.1 Diamond Mining by Erich Berkovitz - GrayWolf's Lair (graywolfslair.com)
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    Making canna-oil

    We usually pull the fan leaves and hang our plants until the small stems snap before extracting the buds and sugar leaves together, but we have also frozen fresh material and extracted it that way. Both produce good oil. We only decarb if we are going to eat the oil or use it in suppositories...
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    Water extraction of essential oils ??

    Steam is how the mono and sesquiterpenes have been harvested for years, but it isn't hot enough for diterpenes and longer molecules.
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    The LPG rapidly boils off after open blast, leaving the material dry.

    The LPG rapidly boils off after open blast, leaving the material dry.
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    i wanna DIY a rosin press

    Alas no, I bought the press but got sidetracked and ended up giving the Harbor Freight press to a friend in need.
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    i wanna DIY a rosin press

    9.4.4 Rosin Extraction - GrayWolf's Lair (graywolfslair.com)
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    Decarb Live Resin in Oil?

    Yes. I typically use 250F to decarboxylate cannabis essential oils and watch the CO2 bubble production from decarboxylation to judge progress. Charts only approximate the average time required, and they don't always reflect actual process conditions. For instance, the lower chart was done...
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