Beta Carboline MAOIs - towards a more effective e-liquid

tceight;2701258 said:

great to see some numbers being crunched. Now, if only the alkaloids knew math, then they would do what they were supposed to. ;-)

still plugging away here, scaling everything up didn't work out so well as I had hoped. Numerous bugs, and my bag of tricks that works with the smaller amount's aren't working so well.

I used more water than I normally would, and far more oil. What I ended up with was a big jar of 'goo'. (remember that I'm using fine ground tobacco).
out of the 200ml of oil, i only recovered about 40ml by pouring it off the top.

my attempts at pressing the goo/paste have been fruitless, so I had to set up a large scale interface method to recover the oil.

Instead of using oil to displace the oil down, I'm attempting to introduce alkalized water slowly to the bottom. As the water flows up, it displaces the oil.
On top of the goo, I have put a filter and cap arrangement that seems to be working, as (so far) I have recovered an additional 50ml of clear yellow oil.

That's the 'other' difference this time... the recovered oil is a deep yellow, as opposed to before when it was more of an amber colour. Thinking it was more contaminant's before, when I was attempting maximal 'concentration', and now I am using 4X's as much oil so percentage of contaminant per ml is less?

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