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Agent Lemon DXM Extraction

Index:

Materials-Equipment-Concept-Step by Step how to-Effects-

The Materials:

Dextromethorphan containing cough syrup. DO NOT get the kind that contains activeingredients such as guaifenesin or acetominiphen, only get the kind that has DXMand alchohol in it. At the levels you'll be drinking those items could be fatal!Get two 4 oz. bottles.

Ordinary Household ammmonia (clear, not lemon or some other scent)

Naptha Lighter Fluid ("Zippo", or "Ronsonal" are good ones.) Be sure to testdifferent brands to be sure they're ok to use. Take a drop of fluid and let itevaporate from a glass plate or mirror. It should evaporate with no residue.

Citric Acid. (lemon juice workes fine.)

Equipment:

Some containers and flexible rubber tubing to use as a siphon. Fish tank hose isfine...

Concept:

Prepare ahead of time a solution of the citric acid in water. For two bottlesof syrup (4 oz each) use 3 tablespoons of lemon juice in 8 fluid ounces of water.

Add ammonia to DXM. DXM converts from hydrobromide salt to freebase and precipitates

out of water. Since it's now nonpolar it wants to go into a non polar solvent. Nowyou add a nonpolar solvent and shake hard. Free base goes into solution in solvent.Let the solvent float to the top. (it doesn't mix with water) Physically separatethe layers. Now the DXM is in the nonpolar layer, mix that with the acid and shakewell. The DXM converts back into the acid salt (since lemon juice has citric acid

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in it, it makes DXM hydrocitrate). This is so cool because the DXM is practicallypulled across the oil-water interface by the hydrogen ion gradient Now you throwout the oil layer, and the DXM is now acid salt in the lemon juice. Boil it forafew minutes on a hotplate or in the microwave, stir it good, so any volatile solventthat remains will evaporate.

You are left with "Agent Lemon" or "DXemon juice", A highly concentrated product,which is superior to cough syrup -- if you really wanted to, you could probablyboilaway the water -- with no danger, since the amount of solvent is almost nothing,andget a crystaline product that might be cut with anhydrous citric acid.

Step by step how to:

Pour 2 (4 oz.) bottles of cough syrup in a jar with a good water tight lid. (amason jar or something)

Pour in a lot of ammonia. Excess is not a serious problem. An ammount of ammoniaabout equal to the syrup volume or more is good.

Stir.

Add about a 1/2 inch thick layer of lighter fluid on top of the ammonia cough syrupmixture.

Seal it up and shake the hell out of it. At least five minutes or so.

Let the organic solvent layer separate, it will float to the top of the water. (thelighter fluid now contains the dxm)

Use a siphon to separate the layers. Fill the siphon (your flexible rubber tube)with water, and while pluging one end with your finger plunge the other end into

the water/ammonia layer (the pink junk under the lighter fluid).

Hold the free end of the siphon below the other end of the siphon, and let go ofthe end. Let the liquid drain into a jar. Throw the pink watery/ammonia crap out.

If you want to minimize the amount of water-ammonia-cough syrup inactive ingredi

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