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2023-06-25 16:53:38 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 70EA60C2C8B7047FA862FCE2AD041B67934D2EE2CF9F8C933E93095E357ADB4B
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Contrary to rumours, adrenochrome is not rare or valuable. https://science.howstuffworks.com/adrenochrome.htm https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-dark-virality-of-a-hollywood-blood-harvesting-conspiracy/ It is available from many suppliers. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Adrenochrome#section=Chemical-Vendors It is difficult to extract from biological tissue, http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1999/articles/1999-v14n01-p049.shtml but it can be synthesized. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01129a531 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome Patents for synthetic production https://patents.google.com/patent/JPS52118466A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US3445478A/en It has no medical uses https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID00871530 It is harmful if consumed https://echa.europa.eu/substance-information/-/substanceinfo/100.000.176 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Adrenochrome#datasheet=LCSS
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