Nullis
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Muriatic acid will store in plastic bottles. There is some at my work in plastic bottles, I think it is around 38%.
Methamphetamine has been a well known compound since the early 1950's and beyond. It was actually first synthesized before 1900 by some guy in Japan. It was used by militaries on both sides of WWII. Early illicit production mostly relied on reductive amination of penyl-2-propane (derived from phenylacetone\acetic acid) via methylamine until these became listed by the DEA. Epherdrine and pseudoephedrine were used as precursors more recently, especially pseudo due to it's availability as an OTC nasal decongestant. The difference between methamphetamine and pseudo\ephedrine is a hydroxyl group, reduction of which by whatever means yields the corresponding isomer.
These products like starter fluid and drano are simply a source of various solvents, reagents and chemicals needed for the synthesis. Drano for example is sodium hydroxide, which would be used to basify a solution. Starter fluid is the source of diethyl ether, a solvent. Batteries are a source of lithium, a catalyst for the reaction.
Ironically both amphetamine and methamphetamine have more recently been found to be naturally occurring substances in some plants. Pseudo\ephedrine have been long known to occur in nature.
