Punk
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Question about chloroform
Why is it than when I wash chloroform with distilled water the chloroform takes on a white cloudy color and when useing the chloroform to extract
freebases from nasty ph 14 fluids the cloroform holding the desired freebase looks crystal clear but when the base is removed it turns cloudy again?
Maybe its just a little bit o water in it and durring the a/b extraction and the basic fluid pulls out the water?
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Maja
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Yes, It takes cloudy appearance when you mix it with water. It absorbs some. If you ever made nitroglycerine, it's white and cloudy till you dry it in
desiccator. Actually I don't know why it's clear when holding freebases ... Maybe other member knows..
[Edited on 15-4-2006 by Maja]
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lacrima97
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When you mix it with water, It will get cloudy, but after a few days, the cloudy shit will form a very thin later between the CHCl3 and water. If you
shake the glass, the cloudy shit will go back into the chloroform.
I believe that this cloudy shit is impurities. I have rid the chloroform of alot of it by running it a few times through a seperatory funnel, after
it has been sitting for at least 3 days. After it comes out, I shake it up really well with water again, and then let it set in a sep funnel for
several days, then extract it again.
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