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Old 09-18-2011, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly View Post
<SNIP> chem teacher, according to her, sulfa drugs were first made in 1906...her opinon was that any decent college chem lab was capable of making them (ditto for chloramphenicol)
And again, finding the components of a decent college chem lab may be problematic--the glassware, bunsen burners, etc can be found or improvised, but the purity of the base chemicals would generally be suspect.
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