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whiterasta
Hey ya'll, Some thoughts for ya. Has anyone looked into the allowable amount of paraffin as vapor http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0477.html
Even being extremely generous about the process of SSD having a residual of 1-3%, given the average lung volume of 6L and that 1M3=1000L every inhalation no matter how small exceeds the limits set above. Alcohol winterization and lyotropic crystallization when done with precision can remove especially the paraffinic components with extreme efficiency. As the wax fraction is co-soluble with many terpenes their loss is directly proportional to the amount of co-soluble wax during lyotropic crystallization. Only partially polar and wax insoluble terpenes are carried over in the process. That said even a crude steam distillate would replace many lost terpenoid fractions and still be of a passable exposure limit for paraffin vapor in a thoroughly winterized resin. Bottom line is due to their co-solubility wax and terpenes will be gained or lost together except by distillation.
I point this out as eventually vaporized resin will need to be shown to be a "pure" product. A known noxious adulterant in quantities that exceed exposure limits can not pass as a "pure" product. I can provide links to paraffins on cannabis if needed by I suspect it is already well known by reading all 12 pages of another thread on the topic.
WR
Even being extremely generous about the process of SSD having a residual of 1-3%, given the average lung volume of 6L and that 1M3=1000L every inhalation no matter how small exceeds the limits set above. Alcohol winterization and lyotropic crystallization when done with precision can remove especially the paraffinic components with extreme efficiency. As the wax fraction is co-soluble with many terpenes their loss is directly proportional to the amount of co-soluble wax during lyotropic crystallization. Only partially polar and wax insoluble terpenes are carried over in the process. That said even a crude steam distillate would replace many lost terpenoid fractions and still be of a passable exposure limit for paraffin vapor in a thoroughly winterized resin. Bottom line is due to their co-solubility wax and terpenes will be gained or lost together except by distillation.
I point this out as eventually vaporized resin will need to be shown to be a "pure" product. A known noxious adulterant in quantities that exceed exposure limits can not pass as a "pure" product. I can provide links to paraffins on cannabis if needed by I suspect it is already well known by reading all 12 pages of another thread on the topic.
WR