So, assuming this information is true:"THC has a boiling point of 200°C (392°F). However before the THC boils, other parts of the oil evaporate and boil.Here are some important temperatures:At 21°C (70°F) the most volatile terpenoids start to evaporate, lending a pungent odor to the air.At 31°C (87°F) the less volatile terpenoids start to evaporate, lending the air even more pungent odors.At 39°C (102°F ) virtually all of the terpenoids undergo evaporation fairly rapidly.At 50°C (122°F) THC-Acid decarboxylates as the water molecule held in the carbonate form evaporates. This activates the THC.At 66°C (150°F) Cannabidiol (CBD) melts and starts to evaporate.At 185°C (365°F) Cannibinol (CBN) boils.At 200°C (392°F) THC boils. Clear vapor from a vaporizer. "What happens to the THC when it boils? Is it destroyed? or just converted into vapor form? If so, why can't you recondense this vapor and collect the purified final product?
What happens when THC breaks down from heat?
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This error is annoyingly returns again and again, as autumn fly.
Collected condensed vapor is called reclaim.
Can this "reclaim" be collected and smoked as hash oil?If there is no "reclaim" obsorbed by my lungs and is instead, recondensed and collected, wouldn't there be a relatively high THC content, and the oil would be considered 'potent' hash oil.
Reclaim is far from ideal extract.
At high temperature resin loses its flavor,
THCA is decarboxylated to THC and THC partially degraded in the CBN.
Activity profile turns to more sedative, suitable for oral ingestion, odorless, never hardens.
Fadedawg
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Some of the THC in converted to CBN when it is boiled.
Frenchy Cannoli
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The process of activating THCA into THC is called “decarboxylation”:
“Decarboxylation occurs naturally with time and temperature, as a function of drying, but we can shorten the amount of time required considerably, by adding more heat. The more heat, the faster it occurs, within reasonable ranges, and in fact occurs spontaneously when the material is burned or vaporized.
Some key words here: "within reasonable ranges" could mean that a nail will not do since there is instant combustion
"in fact occurs spontaneously when the material is burned or vaporized" The material mentioned here is flowers
The degradation of THC convert it in CBN as Fadadawg mentioned but way before it is boiled.
“Decarboxylation occurs naturally with time and temperature, as a function of drying, but we can shorten the amount of time required considerably, by adding more heat. The more heat, the faster it occurs, within reasonable ranges, and in fact occurs spontaneously when the material is burned or vaporized.
Some key words here: "within reasonable ranges" could mean that a nail will not do since there is instant combustion
"in fact occurs spontaneously when the material is burned or vaporized" The material mentioned here is flowers
The degradation of THC convert it in CBN as Fadadawg mentioned but way before it is boiled.
Fadedawg
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Carboxylic acids decarboxylate naturally with time and drying, and THC will degrade to CBN naturally, but both are sped up by the application of heat. On the attached decarboxylation graph, the
point where the line plumments, is where the THC is being converted to CBN faster than the remaining THCA is being converted to THC.
