unodelacosa
Bluelighter
This is true. It's almost always sold as 5-MeO-MiPT fumarate, which is a water-soluble salt formed with fumaric acid. Otherwise, like most drugs, it is an oil in its base/alkaline/lipophilic form.
You see, water is H₂O, right? But picture this: the oxygen atom is huge and sits on one side of the H₂O molecule, while the two little hydrogen atoms with their single proton, neutron and electron each, sit to the opposite side of the oxygen. This makes one side of it negative and the other side positive, in terms of charge, like a battery. Or like the north and south pole, in a sense. So, water is polar because it exhibits electromagnetic polar ends. This is also why electricity travels through water. Oils, fats, hydrocarbons… they don't do this. They're non-polar. So when a drug oil bonds to an acid molecule, they become the two polar ends of one another in a chemical bond. This forms a lattice and gives us crystal salts.
Correct.
You have to mix it with water and a base like sodium hydroxide (aka NaOH, lye), baking soda, soda ash, ammonia, etc. and then heat it up to cause the reaction to occur.
See so like if you have cocaine.hcl and you add water and then NaOH, what happens is the Na bonds to the Chloride from the hcl to form table salt, NaCl. That leaves you with two hydrogens and an oxygen, so water is a side product, but meanwhile it "frees" the coke back to its basic form. Hence the term: freebase.
Note: some things form freebase crystals, but most are oils. Exceptions include crack cocaine and DMT freebase crystals.
Not usually. Typically bonding to an acid molecule greatly lifts the melting and boiling points of a thing. The most notable exception to this in my mind would be methamphetamine.hcl, which actually melts at 175°C but doesn't boil until 214°C, which is significantly lower than its freebase oil, oddly enough, and through a sheer quirk of physics too complicated to get into here. Thermodynamics are a motherfucker; pardon my French.
EDIT: to clarify, vaporizing a drug is best achieved by heating it between its melting and boiling points, but not over the boiling point as it usually becomes too hot and will destabilize, polymerize, and scorch, ruining the drug. When the pipe is hit, a vacuum is created, which removes atmosphere and thus requires less energy to change phase from a liquid to a vapor. The fact that there's ~39°C distance between meth's MP and BP is what allows it to so easily be vaporized. Other drugs like 5-MeO-MiPT and DMT have lower boiling points and more care should be given to not scorch the drug. If they're in salt form, the MPs and BPs are even higher and burning the stuff becomes very difficult to avoid. Just my $0.02 anyway. Good luck!
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