new method increases yield and the elimination of water increases reliability

by flash boiling the absorbed water in the tobacco, I have seen increases in total yield from the tobacco of greater than 25%. But, even more importantly, the elimination of H2O from the oil, and subsequent fine filtration/settling of the oil to remove (now) undissolved sodium carbonate, greatly improves reliable and repeatable extraction to even mildly acidic water.
I've repeated the process 3 times, with results within 5% of each other, and measuring out to ~ 24mg/ml, and no need to 'augment' the final product with commercial juice.

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This is a great innovation. I think your complete method, with all it's tips and carefully devised honing of the acid-base extraction method to the WTA purpose, is about as good as a home method can get - i.e. not much short of what a lab could do.
 

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