Chemistry

“Where on earth do you get that shite?” said Gow, as together we hog tied The Wraith’s hands and feet.

“High school chem lab,” I said.

“You can mail order it?”

“No,” I said. “You gotta make it. Breaking Bad sucked, but it wasn’t wrong about the chem teacher bit. You can make pretty much anything if you know what you’re doing. The base reaction is just methane and ammonia in oxygen with a platinum catalyst. Methane comes out of the taps and you can buy ammonia at IGA. That gets you hydrogen cyanide. React the HCN with sodium hydroxide, a chemistry class staple, and you got aqueous potassium cyanide. Then it’s a simple reaction with Copper(II) sulfate, another staple, and you got yourself some Cyanogen. I can get you more by the end of the week. With nail polish.”
-Sledge vs. The Labyrinth, pg. 61-62