Props to you stee man, props for the 90% drop in your skag use. I haven't scored off the street since shortly after that fent-touched dope went the rounds.
And not only for the reason that the dealer himself, the other one, and the guy I picked up through dissappeared, phone died shortly after the stuff went about. All of them did, now unregistered. I strongly suspect they may be deceased.
What do you mean hardcore, guys? I just posted a simple procedure that should, I hope, be adequate for getting the morphia out of oramorph or other brands of linctus, because morphine is so fucking shite by the oral route, the bioavailability is usually less than 30%, so a massive, massive massive waste by mouth. And there is a TON of sugar in it, so plugging is not too nice, and unhealthy to shoot intravenously. Its a modification of a procedure I use to precipitate the calcium phenoxide of morphine from my XR capsules prior to doing the propionylation; that works much better, and faster and easier to perform than a traditional acid-base extraction where morphine is the drug that is sought. It relies on the fact not of salting and basing the amine nitrogen, but upon that of the calcium salt of the acidic phenol group (a phenol is a benzene bearing a hydroxyl group, -OH amongst any other substituents on the ring [phenyl, where a substituent or part of a molecule of complex nature, rather than for example, simple ring-substituted benzenes, toluenes [toluene is methylbenzene] et cetera.
Unlike conventional alcohols, with which phenols do share quite a few characteristics, such as being able to form esters for example, phenols are much more acidic than are regular aliphatic alcohols (aliphatic meaning on a non-aromatic alkane chain or cycloalkane ring, being formally derived from the parent hydrocarbon alkane. For instance methane, CH4, gains an oxygen atom, to become CH3OH, this being the simplest alcohol possible of the aliphatic type. The simplest cyclic alcohol is cyclopropanol, derived from the parent saturated hydrocarbon, cyclopropane, C3H6, with three carbon atoms linked up to form a pyramidal ring, any one carbon bonded to its two neighbors and bearing two hydrogen atoms. In cyclopropanol, one of these gains an oxygen, to become C3H5OH, where the oxygen, as in other alcohols is bonded to a carbon atom and bears a terminal hydrogen atom, attached only to the oxygen)
Aliphatic alcohols are very weak acids, although they are capable of being deprotonated, R-OH (R in this case stands for the alkyl group), losing that hydrogen bonded to the oxygen atom and replacing it with a metal atom, in practice almost always a group I or II metal (group I are the alkali metals, from lithium, down through sodium, potassium, rubidium and finally caesium, lithium being the least reactive and the least basic alkoxides of the group I metals are derived from it, the trend continues downward in order of increasing reactivity. There is one last alkali metal, francium but it is incredibly fleeting in its existence due to the fact that its intensely radioactive with no stable isotopes, and all of them have a very short half life. IIRC 22 minutes is the longest half life of any isotope. Although I am unaware if it has any nuclear isomers) Theres a spoonful or so, about 25g or so distributed over the entirety of our earth at any one time due to its continuing production as a daughter nuclide of other radioactive elements such as thorium isotopes decaying to francium, which then itself decays, to radon gas, the noble gas below xenon in the periodic table, and the halogen below iodine, another vanishingly rare, fleeting ghost of an element.
The typical route to alkoxides, being to dissolve the alkali or alkaline earth metal (the alkaline earths, or group II metals are beryllium, for the first one, then again in increasing order of reactivity, beryllium being quite hard, and does not react with room temperature water, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium.
Calcium, a greyish metal, is quite soft, but not nearly so much so as sodium, potassium etc, and needs quite a hard pressing, heavy handed approach if its to be cut with a knife, it reacts slowly but steadily with air when not heated, quickly with water, even cold water, although with effervescence rather than violence, to form its hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, the reason for the (OH)2 formula, is that the group II metals are divalent, as contrasted with the monovalent group I elements. And the element is notable for the fact that many of its compounds are insoluble in watere. Including the phenate (phenoxide=phenate, the two are synonymous) salt of the alkaline calcium hydroxide with the acidic phenolic hydroxyl group of morphine, to form calcium morphinate, which in water, precipitates out as its formed. Its quite a good extraction technique. Posted it because of the pissy oral bioavailability of morphine in that linctus. Or other forms.
Recently used it as a matter of fact (the precipitation technique, not the linctus). Now gotta run, my dipropionylmorphine is ready I think
, or at any rate, needs the residual salts washing out of it and recrystallization before I shoot any.
