Recent content by Radagast97

Without going back to the original post, I feel sure what they mean by an ethanol wash (EtOH = ethanol = ethyl alcohol), is using ethanol to extract the terpenes and cannabinoids. The product is pretty much hash oil. It can be smoked in a hash oil pipe, or some applied to papers to supercharge...

The medium is irrelevant to decarboxylation, only temperature. That medium, butter, is great for extracting THC or CBD. Pure butter boils at 100° C, the same as water. If you're still boiling off the water at 45 mins, then that sounds good. If it's gotten to ghee already (i.e. all the water has...

You are basically incorrect. Heating a solvent to vapor doesn't change it chemically, that is why it's referred to as a physical process, not a chemical one. Water is a solvent, distill it and the water is the same, chemically. It's why I can distill my solvents and reuse them, else they would...

No, non-cumulative. It is poisonous because it converts to formaldehyde, then formic acid in the body. A pear contain more formaldehyde than you’d get from a drop of hash oil with 10% methanol. Your body can remove that small an amount without a problem. So unless you consider pears poisonous...

You're argument smacks of bifurcation argument flaw - aka it's all or nothing. It doesn't have to be 100%. Reread "the dose makes the poison.". You have to look at this quantitatively. When we're talking about a product like hash oil, where the dose of the oil is about 1 drop (50 mg). 1 drop...

Everything is poisonous, even water. Three people a year die from water toxicity in the US. "The dose makes the poison" - the toxicologist maxim. The procedures mentioned should have quite a bit less methanol than your average beer (and yes, methanol is produced in small quantities when...

Get no, but you can make it from the azeotrope by treating it with CaO or a molecular sieve. I store mine over a 3 angstrom molecular sieve. That said, I am taking it you used the azeotrope. Thanks

Absolute ethanol or 95%?

Dup post

Yeah, that's what I figured too. Definitely high molecular weight stuff, it doesn't feel very waxy, almost like dry powder.

I didn't, but easily remedied.

I have found something interesting. Something drops out when a concentrated ethyl acetate solution is taken to about -25° C for a day or two, then filtered. I suspect it's not a lipid, perhaps proteinaceous. Dry and almost powdery. For me, I mainly extract from the fine trim, so as not to let...

You didn't read my post. Methanol isn't what I'm using for the initial extraction. I will extract with a different solvent. Bu and Propane are marvelous solvents, but also great at dissolving highly non-polar compounds like waxes - which would be nice to remove. If MeOH is good for THC...

I'm still interested in THC solubility in methanol. It would be a better solvent for removal waxes via freezing, given it's more polar than EtOH or IpOH.