Hi there
I recently started an extraction with the help of
this (acid-base extraction of Peruvian incense (by Litmus)) tek. The Xylene layer did seperate quite well, so i took it off and put it into a separatory funnel. Then about 200ml distilled water were added and about 30drops of Hcl (not diluted, i know that was way to much..). The point is now, that the result was .. well.. not expected. The pic shows what i'm talking about.
thats the bottom layer directly out of the sep. funnel. The Layers in there seperated quickly as they should but this is far far away from the clear solution i expected. Anyone knows what this is? I used about 580g cacti powder (from whole, dryed cati-slices), 3L distilled water about 500g NaOH and 1L Xylene.
Now another problem is, that i thought this happend because of the acid, so i put everything back into the big jar and added another 200ml distiled water and 200g NaOH. But now the layers wont even start to seperate... Is there anything how i could save the project?
While writing this i remember something about defatting the soloution... any connections with that maybe?
Thankfull for everyone who has an idea
