AlsoTapered
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The RETAIL purity is the data I was referring to - but who knows what 'retail' means in this context.
BTW 78% diacetyl morphine. The majority of the remaining 22% is 3-monoacetyl morphine & 6-monoacetyl morphine. I asked them (the HR agency, not the Afghan producers).
Sure, a little 6-acetyl codeine, & 3-aetyl oripavine and some other alkaloids are all in there but the Afghans have got VERY good at purifying H. I mean, Southwest Asian 'white' heroin is usually over 90% pure retail. So other producers have reached such levels of purity. It's not unique.
There is an excellent paper which details how they take crude opium and extract the morphine (the phenolic -OH means it's amenable to quite basic chemistry achieving this). Then they just boil it in acetic anhydride for some hours. I will find it for you.
From their perspective, they don't want to be smuggling inactives.
BTW 78% diacetyl morphine. The majority of the remaining 22% is 3-monoacetyl morphine & 6-monoacetyl morphine. I asked them (the HR agency, not the Afghan producers).
Sure, a little 6-acetyl codeine, & 3-aetyl oripavine and some other alkaloids are all in there but the Afghans have got VERY good at purifying H. I mean, Southwest Asian 'white' heroin is usually over 90% pure retail. So other producers have reached such levels of purity. It's not unique.
There is an excellent paper which details how they take crude opium and extract the morphine (the phenolic -OH means it's amenable to quite basic chemistry achieving this). Then they just boil it in acetic anhydride for some hours. I will find it for you.
From their perspective, they don't want to be smuggling inactives.
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