Man of Many Hobbies
CHAPTER SIX
The work of keeping up a hobby is not so much as it seems.. .It is difficult to tell where an activity leaves off being a hobby and becomes an avocation, or even a vocation. John 5. Boyden Deseret News
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care of there too, but these could be a relief from the routine stresses and strains that never let up at the office. The Indians John's interest in Indians began with his boyhood days when he found...
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in Indians, gave him a piece of black Indian pottery. He was extremely proud of his Indian pot, and it marked the beginning of his lifelong hobby of collecting Indian artifacts (now housed in the Chase Fine...
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Conferring of the degree of Juris Doctor carries with it no omnipotent power. Beyond the hills of justice lies a royal purple range of mercy borne of the upheavals in man's weaknesses and imperfections, but...
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community to display children’s work, bringing children’s artifacts from home to display at
school, and sharing photographs outside the classroom (Feiler et al., 2008).
In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE)...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 1
Methamphetamine and CNS effects............................................................................ 1
History...
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Synthethic routes to methamphetamine ........................................................................... 7
Figure 2: TIC Chromatograph of methamphetamine extract with septum artifacts .......... 10
Figure 3:...
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CHAPTER THREE: RESULTS
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrophotometry (GC/MS)
GC analysis was performed on multiple samples (n=11), collected and analyzed from February to April 2009, produced very similar gas chromatograms as shown in Figures 2-3....
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CHAPTER FOUR: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
Methamphetamine Impurities
The hypothesis, that a distinct pattern of impurities present in illicit methamphetamine specimens could be characterized by GC/MS, was supported during this research, despite...
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in methamphetamine synthesized by hydriodic acid/red phosphorous (Puthaviriyakorn, 2002). In addition, naphthalene (found around 232 m/z) was not detected in this study.
GC/MS and Methamphetamine Artifacts
Though the methamphetamine samples...
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methamphetamine, which, facilitates the elimination of an amine or the formation of amphetamine.
Because injector temperature was above 200 ºC (Figure 12), chemical derivatization was not performed on the samples, and methamphetamine samples...
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Future Directions
To minimize the possibility of artifacts it is recommended that illicit methamphetamine samples should be derivatized using 4-carbethoxyhexafluorobutyryl chloride (CB), heptafluorobutyric anhydride (HFBA or...
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CHAPTER FIVE: LITERATURE CITED
A.C. Allen, Methamphetamine from Ephedrine I, Chloroephedrines and aziridines. J. Forensic Sci., 32 (1987) 953-962.
C.F.R., 21 C.F.R. Part 111, (Retrieved March 21, 2009), Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedrine...