Most forms of additives can be easily boiled off in the cooking ie baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), Inositol (vitamin b8) and even forms of baby laxatives have been used to add additional weight to the cocaine. Buffing cocaine is the process of adding different substances usually chemicals closely related to the original alkaloid in attempts of increasing the yield of the product. The net reaction when using sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3, common baking soda) is: Coc-H+Cl– + NaHCO3 → Coc + H2O + CO2 + NaCl Crack cocaine when processed correctly, may contain almost 75% of the original cocaine alkaloid as it did before being what is called on the streets as buffed. This removes the residual bicarbonate, and any adulterants or cuts that have been used in the previous handling of the cocaine and leaves a relatively pure, anhydrous cocaine base.
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