From nuke@netcom.com Tue Feb 28 18:03:55 PST 1995 In article <1995Feb27.082154.2750@ubmail.ubalt.edu>, E poly(TFE) Piano wrote: > ****Pssst. Hey man. Anybody wanna do a couple spoons of Folger's Crystals? Boil several grams of tea leaves in water for five minutes. Filter. Make the filtrate pH 9 with sodium carbonate, and extract three times with dichloromethane. Wash the organic phase with brine, dry over MgSO4, and remove the solvent. The crude product can be purified by sublimation. If a portion of the vapor of the sublimate is allowed to escape and is inhaled, a righteous, giddy buzz results. Don't do too much. -- -- Bill Newcomb "Now, I'm not trying to be flippant here, or irreverent, nuke@netcom.com or exploitive, or sarcastic, or ironic, or post-modern, and this is not a parody. Get it? Got it? Good." -Ann Magnuson