often one must be willing to make a sacrafice in the name of experimentation
So you experiment with (i dont know how much you paid for it) an expensive drug? as i said above, dont try it as its been mentioned before as a coke destroyer, if you want to base it, try a softer base which wont leave your coke rooted.... its only a salt, just dont try NaOH again... jesus....
Experimenting with reagents (most) is ok, they are cheap and expendable, and are of a known (most of the time) purity, any results coming from street drugs are not experimentally reliable as they are cut and whatevered to extend profits. So the amount of NaOH used to base one lot of coke is not the same as another lot...
For example (this is soooo dodgy, but required):
1g coke (street) contains x moles of actual coke (the whole gram is not coke), this then requires x moles of NaOH right? cool, ok....
but say another 1g of coke you have in another bag is x-y moles of coke, where y represents the extra amount of crap in it...
if you put in x moles of NaOH still as before then you will overbase, and fuck the moles coke which is the difference between x and y....
get my point?
i feel like im repeating everything i said before, which i am, but hey... you get that.
i dont know but i think sodium carbonate would be fine to base out coke without damaging the freebase molecule, and with this you dont have to worry about accounting as detailed above...
that way you can base as much coke as you like and not screw any of it....
-AC