Jaredborgetti
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If the melting point of thebaine is 194.5C and the melting point of morphine is 250C, can you destroy the thebaine in opium via heat?
Seems like it according to this information.
So is it possibly somehow to destroy the thebaine from opium or not?There's a difference between "melting" (i.e. going from solid to liquid) and "thermal decomposition".
"Melting" is a reversible process; solid water, for example, can be melted and frozen as often as you want, and it will still stay H2O.
In fact, there are times where you deliberately try to decrease a substance's melting/boiling point in order to prevent it from being destroyed, like "freebasing" cocaine in order to get its boiling point down to a level where it can be effectively vaporized upon heating (as opposed to cocaine hydrochloride, whose boiling points and temperature of decomposition are so close together that attempting to smoke the drug is going to cause a lot of it to be incinerated).
In fact, if melting a drug was the same as destroying it, we obviously wouldn't be able to smoke opium either.
Lastly, many chemicals will form so-called "eutectic mixtures" with each other, that is a mixture with a melting point that is lower than the melting point of either of its components.
So is it possibly somehow to destroy the thebaine from opium or not?