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Now, down to business. From my understanding the role of the ammonia in the process of creating freebase is to neutralize the hydrochloric acid attached to the cocaine effectively separating the two, allowing it to become smoke-able? Does the ammonium chloride just precipitate wherever it can or does it become gaseous and evaporate from the solution? Or does it remain dissolved in the water and only the cocaine precipitates allowing you to just filter out the solution and leave the freebase behind.
Also, what is the purpose of the heat? Is it just to boil out all of the water or does it act as some sort of catalyst? Or maybe dissolve any undesirables to be filtered out?
I've never cooked but from my understanding when it comes to using baking soda the sodium bicarbonate's purpose is to pull the hcl off to make sodium chloride which dissolves in the solution and and allows the freebase to separate and be filtered out. But I still don't understand the use of heat other than possibly acting as the catalyst the first time and to boil out the water the second time.
I'm by far no chemist. Any knowledge I possess on chemical reactions is self-taught so bare with me.
Now, down to business. From my understanding the role of the ammonia in the process of creating freebase is to neutralize the hydrochloric acid attached to the cocaine effectively separating the two, allowing it to become smoke-able? Does the ammonium chloride just precipitate wherever it can or does it become gaseous and evaporate from the solution? Or does it remain dissolved in the water and only the cocaine precipitates allowing you to just filter out the solution and leave the freebase behind.
Also, what is the purpose of the heat? Is it just to boil out all of the water or does it act as some sort of catalyst? Or maybe dissolve any undesirables to be filtered out?
I've never cooked but from my understanding when it comes to using baking soda the sodium bicarbonate's purpose is to pull the hcl off to make sodium chloride which dissolves in the solution and and allows the freebase to separate and be filtered out. But I still don't understand the use of heat other than possibly acting as the catalyst the first time and to boil out the water the second time.
I'm by far no chemist. Any knowledge I possess on chemical reactions is self-taught so bare with me.