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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