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just morphine. It is the basis for most opiates like lor tabs , heroin , and oc. Morphine is it's own molecule.
(5 alpha, 6 alpha) 7,8 didehydro-4,5 epoxy-17 methylmorphinan-3,5 diol
Morphine commonly used as a medication is called "morphine sulfate" or "MS" by medical personnel.
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∙ 12y agoI know that burning it may produce carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, but that's all i got....sry
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∙ 14y agoOpium actually isn't a chemical, it contains morphine [(5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-
4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol] and codeine.
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∙ 14y agoCarbon17Hydrogen19NitrogenOxygen3
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∙ 15y agoC17H19NO3
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What is the chemical symbol for opium?
There is no chemical symbol for opium. It is a mixture. Only pure substances have chemical symbols.
What does opium stands for?
Opium doesn't stand for anything. The name of the drug comes from the flower that it's harvested from, the Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum)
What is the Hindi name of opium?
Afim
Can you boil aspirin into pure opium?
Of course not! There is no relationship between the two chemical compounds.
Name three ways to administer opium and opium products?
Oral ingestion, injection, and vaporizing (smoking)
What is codeine derived from?
Codeine is the stepped down version of morphine, which is the active ingredient in the opium scrapped from opium poppies. Google codeine to see the chemical process in preparing this substance.
Why does your blood have no opium if you are taking opium?
opium is a latex mixture of alkaloids such as morphine, codeine and thebaine just to name a few. opium is therefore a mixture and when you take opium these drugs are metabolised into compounds such morphine. This means that if they gave you a blood test they would find morphine and other things on the same lines of that but not opium as opium is a mixture of drugs not an actual individual drug
What chemical is used to test the purity of opium?
You can eat and if u feels good it means its pure..lol
What was the name of the conflict between China and Britain over the trade of a poisonous drug?
It was the Opium Wars.Made up of the first opium war from 1839 to 1842 and the second opium war from 1856 to 1860.
What does the latin name for Opium Poppy mean?
The Latin name for Opium Poppy is 'Papaver Somniferum'. 'Papaver' is the word for a poppy and 'somniferum' means 'I bring sleep'. So in Latin, Papaver Somniferum means 'poppy which brings sleep' referring to the sedative and painkilling nature of opium.
What body systems do Opium affect?
Opium, once a person is "high," it causes a chemical imbalance in the brain and make on feel, relaxed, at ease, lost, even paranoid if the drug abuse has been going on for a while.
How do they make morphine?
Although morphine can be synthesized by an organic chemist, its is far cheaper and economical to retrieve morphine from opium. Opium comes from a type of flowering plant that contains several chemicals that are medically useful, morphine is one such chemical. There are various processes for isolating morphine from opium/poppy straw, but suffice to say, organic chemistry techniques are involved.
