Re: HYB: Abbey Road pigments (was on photos)

My first thought about the emulsion was that it wasn't an emulsion, but
was from degraded cell components from using petals that were too old.

However, it did separate by the next day, so it was an emulsion.

There were three yellow pigments - one that was water extractable, one
that was not extractable in water, but was in alcohol, and one that was
extractable from alcohol  with paraffin oil.  Most of the pigment was in
either water or oil, little was in alcohol, but there was some.

There was definitely yellow pigment in the paraffin oil.

I rinsed the petals after the water extraction to make sure I'd gotten
rid of all the water soluble pigment before adding the alcohol
extraction.

The alcohol/lamp oil mixture did not form an emulsion when I started
with the hot water extraction.  The water remaining in the petals was
apparently enough to change the concentration of the isopropyl alcohol
to give it slightly higher specific gravity so it separated out very
quickly.

I think I do remember seeing a faint border on the falls, but am not
sure.

ABBEY only has one stalk, & I've pretty well used up the one bloom that
was open.

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