Tomtom feel free to just ask questions here so everyone can benefit.
So my shipment got held up by customs, who required product labeling material safety data, intended end use, the EIN# of my company, etc. Wuhan listed the CB as a different chemical which would have complicated things but they were very quick to supply all the forms I needed to forward to customs. For the EIN# I do have a shelf corporation in Delaware for unrelated reasons and just used that, same deal with the letterhead that they required. I made up some bull**** about the end use, and now my CB is in San Francisco's main shipping hub -- so it should be just another day or two before it reaches me.
I still do not know what proportions of Everclear (ethanol), PG, and CB to mix. Any advice would be appreciated.
As for testing it, my friend at the lab is doubtful how helpful HPLC can be without a reference. He said that it's easy to tell if it's "pretty much correct" (i.e. a similar compound), but any more specificity would be impossible. His lab mostly works with larger molecules, but he's finding out if he can get one of his friends to run an MS at the other lab across the hall - he thinks that could be more accurate. Because there is no reference -- obviously Cassiopeia has no interest in giving away their intellectual property -- we may be left with good guesses and trial/error based on anecdotal evidence.
