No, I do not think I have discovered a new cannabinoid, LOL. I am using the Vaporesso Armour Pro mod and a Triton OS vaporize using their titanium cup 1702 v3 atty.
Keep in mind those boiling point charts have quite a bit of variance and some of those numbers were produced under vacuum.
I have heard this rumour before - that the boiling point numbers of some cannabinoids were derived under vacuum distillation. I do not believe these numbers are accurate for three reasons.
(1) Typically, vacuum distillation is only used when the boiling point of the substance at normal pressure would cause it to become unstable before it boils. Otherwise, why bother with all the additional apparatus needed to do a vacuum distillation?
(2) The amount of boiling point depression under vacuum is quite significant. For example you can get water to boil at temperatures well below freezing, and you don't even need a particularly good vacuum pump to achieve this. So if these BP temperatures cited for cannabinoids are in fact under vacuum, then the BPs at sea-level would be way above 500 degC or 950 degF. Looking at it the other way around, Skunkpharmresearch has provided a BP of Delta-9 of 315 degF at one atmosphere and 62.4 degF under a 99.99 percent vacuum.
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https://skunkpharmresearch.com/vacuum-equipment-and-process-tips/ )
Since this temperature is way above the range of battery operated, mod-based humidifiers, we should not be receiving the medical benefits we are from mod-based vaping. Also, we would expect that the quantity of concentrate we put in the bowl would never decrease, and we would never run out of medicine. LOL. Wishful thinking perhaps, Alice in Wonderland perhaps, but certainly not earthly reality!
(3) With great respect to all reading this, the interpretation of scientific data by non-scientists can sometimes be fraught with perils, even when the non-scientists are sober!!! When you take even the tiny misinterpretations that result, and echo them around through all kinds of chatrooms and forums for a few months, it is amazing how distorted they can become. Kind of like the old party game "telephone". I've seen this phenomenon first hand on cannabis forums, for example, regarding the health risks of PEG.
Another example closer to home: apparently, PubChem posted some BPs for cannabinoids that were mis-labeled as having been measured under vacuum. Any scientist with a basic knowledge of organic chemistry would know instantly that this must clearly be a clerical error, yet it seems to have been bouncing around canna forums for quite a while, creating confusion and leading to some incorrect articles on the internet.
Well, sorry for the rant here, LOL, but hopefully it will help clear up a little of this confusion. I hope you will feel free to correct my thinking here if I am wrong.
If you are using high proof ethanol you can try a winterization and then repeat the experiment and see what happens.
This is a great idea. I will have to start collecting some more of that red stuff. Also, by using the right temperature probe, I might be able to actually measure its boiling point. Also TLC might be useful, if I only had more time and space in the lab for this shit.
"Oil high in CBN is red, but your experiment sounds like you could be vaporizing plant wax like nonacosane if those numbers are accurate ..... "
Do you think something with a high MW like nonacosane would be present in a good quality shatter?
In the meantime, I am back to my original question: WTF exactly is in this stuff we are smoking?
I am going to see if there are any public forums out there for cannabis extractors. They might have some good thoughts.