Graywolf
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I have been told that the reason we wintertize, Is that butane is nonpolar and it attracts the stuff we want from our material. The butane gets trapped in the process. You must use a polar solvent to brake it up and release it. Is this true? If any one is still wondering.. I use dry Ice to drop the temp.
Butane is relatively non polar and extracts the non polar plant waxes along with the cannabinoids and other terpenes.
Winterizing is redissolving a non polar extraction into a polar solvent and then dropping the temperature so that the fats, lipids, and waxes precipitate out of solution, enabling them to be removed by filtration.