Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Manufacturing salvia extracts

Hi! my readers, now that I'm the manufacturer of the production of salvia divinorum extract I will tell you a story about an error I had while working.

The equipment to extract Salvinorin-A is a professional grade one, we have lab glass regularly called "Pyrex", that is more chemical resistant than regular glassware, and it's also resistant to sudden temperature changes, or at least that's what I knew.

I'm in charge of 2 glass extractors, somewhat big, but small enough to carry it with both of my hands. We need to clean both of them each time after we finish an extraction.

Of course with that amount of orders, you need to clean it fast to have it ready for the next salvia extraction. Sometimes the equipment is still a little hot when I empty the glass recipient of our extractors. Unfortunately I accidentally knocked the container against the table strong enough to create a crack in its base.

I was astonished that it didn't happened before, because I used to accidentally hit those glass recipients with at least that same roughness a lot of times, but this time it made a fisure.

After thinking thoroughly about that event, I got the the conclusion that the reason for the fisure was the temperature of the glass, which it was warm when this happened.

I'll let them warm off from this day, it may take longer but it's safer.