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Nicotine Extraction and purification
OK, to close this off and leave something for others attempting this same item, I finally did it. T ... |
15-4-2005 at 11:52
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Oh, I understand now. I use a non-polar as the initial solvent because I started this process by dum ... |
18-3-2005 at 12:29
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Naptha is a petroleum distillate. Basically what they do is distill crude oil and take off the produ ... |
16-3-2005 at 17:10
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Crap, I think I may know why the yields are so damn low. Evaporation. It came to me thinking about t ... |
16-3-2005 at 16:49
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
An APPLE! That is way cool. I never, ever, would have thought of using a fruit to absorb nicotine.
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16-3-2005 at 14:37
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Steam distillation just doesn't seem to work. If you distill it slowly, it takes a lot, liters, ... |
13-3-2005 at 11:09
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
OK, I'll check it. I just took 50ml of acetone and added a few grams of NaOH to it. It's s ... |
6-3-2005 at 09:34
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Regarding the acetone, yes, I'm sure it's nicotine. Remember, I'm very familiar with ... |
5-3-2005 at 16:07
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
It took me this long to finish the extractions on two water based experiments. Not very encouraging ... |
4-3-2005 at 10:29
by: Cheapskate |
micro distillation
That setup is so cool. It's gotta cost U$1000 though. I'm gonna look in the catalogs to se ... |
4-3-2005 at 09:46
by: Cheapskate |
micro distillation
Actually, the hickman isn't the problem it's the fact that I need the higher boiling fract ... |
1-3-2005 at 23:59
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
liquid nitrogen would be difficult. I don't have the equipment to handle it. I could probably s ... |
24-2-2005 at 11:49
by: Cheapskate |
micro distillation
Hopefully I'm going to have a small amount of a high boiling point liquid that I want to distil ... |
23-2-2005 at 13:38
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
One thing I'm going to start a separate thread on in the organic chemistry forum is micro disti ... |
23-2-2005 at 13:31
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
I, sort of, tried this. What happened to me was: I used everclear 95%, not the 73% stuff in Califor ... |
23-2-2005 at 10:42
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Every attempt has been done with dried tobacco products. I'm currently working my way through a ... |
22-2-2005 at 10:45
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
OK, so it doesn't appear that I ruined it by being over zealous with the NaOH.
My experimen ... |
21-2-2005 at 23:56
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Holy Cow, using an expresso machine never occurred to me. Right now I have the large volume of water ... |
20-2-2005 at 00:09
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Sandmeyer, Thanks for the pointer to the workup. I found that about a month back and read it in grea ... |
18-2-2005 at 23:56
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
I took 50 grams of tobacco and steam distilled 1.5 liters of water through it. I then acidified and ... |
18-2-2005 at 16:12
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Thanks BromicAcid. I've looked at about 7 of the water methods an they all have the same proble ... |
18-2-2005 at 13:39
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Just to let you know that I take your suggestions and ideas seriously, I looked really closely at th ... |
17-2-2005 at 14:38
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
I'm in a densly populate area and a little reluctant to deal with picric acid (no experience wi ... |
17-2-2005 at 00:04
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Regarding butane. I did this one with a piece of pvc pipe and about 100g of tobacco. The extraction ... |
16-2-2005 at 16:00
by: Cheapskate |
Nicotine Extraction and purification
Oh, thanks for the pointer to insecticide. However that form of insecticide has been discontinued in ... |
16-2-2005 at 15:00
by: Cheapskate |
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