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oh and yeah with my aspirator I was boiling water at about 39 - 41 deg. C. I didn't go through with the calculations as you would in a standard chemistry class I'm sure, to figure out my specific rate of pull but I'm pretty sure it's the at or above -29hg... The bigger, football shaped stir bar...

Sweet thx, yeah I was able to find a couple of sources on food grade and even what one place referred to as "Ultra Pure" at 98% d-limonene. Will prolly end up buying from them. You're dead right on me not being able to waste material. Ideally, I'd like to be doing runs of 1 ounce, I do 1/2 ounce...

so after some initial researching into d-limonene and how it's produced, I'm pretty confident I can just use distilled water and steam distill under reduced pressure... That's exactly how they make d-limonene in a lab is by grading up some orange peel and then steam distilling. The distillate...

never mind, now I see why you use d-limonine: "d-Limonene is a volatile oil steam-distilled from orange peel" ... one word comes to mind, DOOOOOOOOOPE! why have I not heard of this before! lol. and secondarily, do any common shops in the USA sell this magical stuff?? Like, wally...

if the distilled water is a bust then I suppose I'll stick to my super chilled QWET extraction w/dry ice and then just vacuum distill the ethanol to reclaim and call it a day or night rather... will check my chemistry supply sites for D-Limonine tho. Why does that work? Does it travel together...

oh and $800+ for all the proper lab equipment?? Hardly... I got all my stuff for sub-$400 ... that's all the lab glassware for vacuum distillation AND heating mantle WITH magnetic stirring capabilities! Home Training Tools Vacuum Distill Kit The Science Company Heating Mantle 1L w/Magnetic...

I've got to say that this thread is pretty interesting... I've been reading up on this subject for quite some time now and have acquired all the necessary organic chemistry equipment to perform vacuum distillations. I've only done a couple vacuum distills but am confident in both my setup and my...