Storing - Salts settling out during storage

[terrapinzflyer]

Turtles aarrdvark friend told him of a recent dream. In the dream- Some months ago he had converted gbl to ghb using food grade sodium hydroxide. He made a rather large batch, removed a tincture bottle full, and stored the rest in a glass mason jar with a tight fitting plastic lid (the kind commonly used for mushroom spawn jars but without the hole drilled in it). He stored it in a cool, dark, and dry place, upright so the solution was only in contact with the glass.
He then returned some 3 months later to find the salts had largely settled to the bottom. He thought the liquid level looked considerably lower as well (say ~375 ml down from ~500-600ml), but can not honestly say for sure- it was a dream and everything was not clear.

Anyway- the aarrdvark plans to reenter the dream and asked the turtle what he should try and do in it. Should he simply add more distilled h20 until things return to solution? Should he do so under heat? should he cook off the liquid, then rehydrate the salts with known quantity of h20. OR something completely different??

[MrG]

The dream describes a saturated solution of NaGHB liquid precipitating out the NaGHB salt as the H2O evaporated.

Accepted thinking these days is that NaGHB should be stored as a solid in a sealed plastic container (tupperware) and a liquid amount made up as and when needed.

It would probably be effective, theoretically, in the circumstances described, to boil off the H2O until the temp is 150c and to pour the molten NaGHB out to cool onto a metal cooking tray. When it has cooled and hardened the tray need only be twisted a little for the hardened NaGHB to break up into larger chunks which could be then broken up to fit the plastic container.

There is no need to grind NaGHB into a powder, if anything it would make it harder to handle and more likely to absorb moisture.