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Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by mlonkibjuyhv on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:36AM (#23947886)
I wonder if Ergotamine could be an Amine from Ergot. Should probably be abbreviated EA in that case.
Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by kerkeslager on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:17AM (#23948959)
Considering that this is coming from the same drug culture that uses the word "molly" refer to "some mixture of empatheogenic drugs and possibly some amphetamine", expecting specificity from your terminology is a bit unrealistic.

I'm not (just) being judgmental here: volunteering harm reduction at festivals, the number 1 problem we had was that users had no idea what they had put into their bodies.

Actual chemists, no doubt, don't use any of this terminology since chemical reactions don't produce the desired results if you're vague about what you put into them.

Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by mallomarmeasle on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:54AM (#23947938)
ET = ergotamine tartarate, the typical salt
Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by corobo on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:55AM (#23948523)
It's been a while since I've done chemistry- does typical mean something in the context of chemistry?

If someone asked me what the typical salt was I'd say table salt

Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by kerkeslager on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:20AM (#23948968)
The way I learned it, if you mix an acid and a base, you get a salt and water. Table salt (NaCl) is the result of mixing hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH):

HCl + NaOH -> HOH (water) + NaCl

But if you mix a different acid and a different base, you'll get a different salt, for example if you mix sulphuric acid and calcium hydroxide, you get calcium sulfate:

H2SO4 + Ca(OH)2 -> 2(HOH) + CaSO4

Calcium sulfate is just a different salt.

Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by jschwartzi on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:14AM (#23948946)
Organic chemicals are often “salted” to cause them to precipitate out of the solution they’re synthesized in. It’s a salt in the chemical sense, but not in the culinary sense.
Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by gallexme on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:08AM (#23948580)
Typical cause that's the end result of most commonly used mass synthesis

Lsd is also exclusively sold as tartrate