Question Any experience with Tween 80(Polysorbate-80) to brake alkali emulsions?

[btcboss2022]

I have been searching different forms to brake water-freebase emulsions in alkali ambient and I found that non-ionic surfactants are used for that in many cases because they don't affect the freebase and are keeped in the water layer.
Seems that Tween 80(Polysorbate-80) but I never used that kind of products before.
There is someone with experience with them that want to share his experience?
Thanks.

 

[btcboss2022]

I'm going deeply on that and possibly for that cases Nonylphenol Ethoxylate(NP-40) would works better.

 

[Pororo]

Most interesting topic. Strange, there is nobody applying such detergents. I recently thought to use ammonia for this purpose. Will test it on the occasion.

 

[Pororo]

Tested it. Ammonia doesn't work in this case. I thought being added to a water layer it will break a colloid in non-polar layer. But it doesn't .

 

[craris100]

Its commonly used for cocaine hidding purposes

 

[Pororo]

Do you mean - NP-40?

 

[craris100]

Yes

 

[Tovenaar]

Can you explain how they use it? You mean when they send in liquid form? Or for odor?

 

[craris100]

It works like a chelating agent, it produces fake negative in qualitative test and it can not be smelled by dogs. There are a lot of products like this.