
Chemistry incomprehension: Heptane blends with the soup base and never separates again no matter how much I wait, how much dilute it in distilled water or how much I add heptane
First I tried this classic 'mudpie' tek but I got a low yield (>2g DMT) and also diluted too much propylene glycol with the DMT spice so I didn't feel anything and i didn't do a water wash so I burned my trachea with lye residues, so I wanted to try the tek that the pros on this sub recommend : the CAD tek.
Wonderful world of DMT (mudpie - idk it's real name) tek:
100g NaOH lye
800mL distilled water
75g mhrb
no Nacl Salt
With this one I had no such problem and beautiful yellow top heptane layer formed.
CADjunglist tek I did for a 1L flash (i don't have a 2L flask)
800mL distilled water
17.5g NaOH lye
25g NacL salt
100g mhrb
I got a big emulsion after the first swirl after I added the heptane. I suspect that the emulsion signals that there was a massive binding of the heptane with the base, but I just can't figure out what chemistry might have caused it?
I even separated the heptane-soup mix into two containers : a sludge and a brown liquid with the fluidity of water/motor oil.
No heptane top layer formed on the water-like brown liquid
I diluted the sludge soup in distilled water + NaOH lye again to reach a brown liquid with the fluidity of water/motor oil. No heptane top layer also formed.
Yet my mhrb was powdered correctly, a fine power with only tiny fiber like roots. Maybe I put too much mhrb for my flask and maybe that changed the chemistry of the NPS.