Hey All: The following is just something that I have been noodleing off and on for about a year now, it might be a stupid question, or maybe not, it might get me flamed, or it might not, in any case I just have to know, its been bothering me for to damn long.
About a year and a half ago someone gave me an old copy of Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences(Fourteenth Edition), its a pretty neat book, lots of useful imformation and other cool stuff, and I have learned alot, however one part of it puzzles me. When you look up a drug in this book(I will use Meth.HCL as the example, since this is the Stimulants Forum) it gives you all the basic imformation,Preperation,Dose,Solubility,Uses,etc. Now I know what all that stuff means, but at the very top of the drug facts it will say something like, "Methamphetamine Hydrochloride contains 98.5-100.5% of Meth.HCL, calculated on the dried basis", what does this mean?
I thought 100.00% purity was the most you could have of anything, or maybe it doesent mean purity, maybe it means.... ahh fuck, I dont know. What does this mean. Its not just Meth, almost all the drugs say this(sometimes upto 102.00%). Ive asked around, and no one has been able to give me an answer, one guy said it has something to do with recrystalization(but I doubt that)but, the general answer given was "I dont know". So I am going to turn this question over to the most brilliant minds I know of, Hive Bees. I really hope someone can answer my question, its just been bugging the hell out of me for about a year now.
P.S. If anybody feels like flaming me for asking a stupid question(if this is one), please feel free to do so. Just do be kind and please include the answer(or how to find it)in your flame.
Thank You