Add 100 ml of water for every ounce

Add 100 ml of water for every ounce of initial ephedrine after the reaction mixture has cooled.Boil the solution in a stove top safe glass bowl for 5-10 minutes, this will save you time by not having to refilter the mixture several times as noted belowFilter using coffee filter and paper towel plugRe-filter through the same RP and filters again, continue refiltering until it has no added clearing effect.filtering should remove the cloudiness and most of the red color. It may require refilter 3 or 4 times. You end up with a clear yellow or colorless solution that can have many different odors. If you don't refilter you may leave iodine in the stuff. Recycle the red phosphorous it is still good.Trouble - If it refuses to filter and it seems like iodine is everywhere!!! STOP, the reaction did not take. It is still possible to save your batch and obtain a good yield .Collect the fluids, RP and iodine put back in flask, add more I2 and RP, and a condenser and begin boiling lightly for many hours (4 at least). You can even boil it in an open flask. You want to boil away most of the water. At the end of the boil,. it the contents are allowed to settle, there should be RP on the bottom and a yellow fluid on top. The yellow liquid is almost as viscous as motor oil. SAVE everything until you are done and sure you have your chili Use a large glass or plastic vessel to store all the discharge in (a empty gallon water container is perfect)