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[refurb]

They should fact check the article...

On the morning of April 19, he synthesized 0.5 milliliters of the compound, dissolved it in 10 cubic centimeters of water, and at 4:20 PM took 250 micrograms—0.000025 of a gram, the smallest dose he thought he might conceivably notice.

Synthesized 0.5mL? It’s not a liquid.

And 250 ug is 0.00025, they have an extra zero in there.

[desideratum → refurb]

> Synthesized 0.5mL? It’s not a liquid.

Do you think it's synthesized directly into blotter form?

[swiley → desideratum]

LSD is a solid (I think) so giving a volume probably means a solution which is a weird thing to talk about since it doesn’t really mean much.

[refurb → swiley]

Exactly. LSD is a solid.

It’s as if I said I had 0.5 mL of salt. It tells you nothing other than you have water with salt in it.

[hprotagonist → refurb]

the state of matter is a function of temperature and pressure.

LSD is a solid, sure -- below 175 F. Then it's a liquid, but it decomposes into simpler molecules before it boils, so it doesn't really have a gaseous form at STP.

[swiley → hprotagonist]

It probably decomposes before it melts, it’s a very fragile molecule.

A more reasonable assumption is that it’s a saturated solution at NTP but that’s still quite an assumption.