| if you were going to defat the solution you would add a small bit of naptha before you add the lye.. at this point your DMT is still a salt, and dissolved in the slightly acidic solution. the naptha would pull out all of the fats (non-polar molecules), and you would suck up that layer of naptha (making sure to get all of it) off the top of the solution and discard it. THEN you add the lye, which knocks the ions off you dmt salt, turning it into a freebase form. Then you do your 3 naptha pulls to extract the freebase from the now very polar solution.
at which point you can either evap the naptha or freeze precipitate and filter out your dmt.
and to answer your other question naptha evaporates much quicker then water.
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