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Definition of Free-base
1. Verb. Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-base
Literary usage of Free-base
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"The degree of the hydrolysis of the aniline hydrochloride is conditioned by
temperature, by the degree of dilution, and by excess of free base. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"The free base can burn in the air with a feeble yellowish flame. ... It is obvious
that the free base must show reducing properties in a much higher degree. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"The degree of the hydrolysis of the aniline hydrochloride is conditioned by
temperature, by the degree of dilution, and by excess of free base. ..."
4. Introduction to Physical Chemistry by James Walker (1907)
"This assumption enables us to substitute in the left-hand member of the equation
the concentrations of total free base and total salt for the concentrations ..."
5. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"... and finally, on account of the very feeble dissociation of the base, regard
the concentration of BOH as equally that of the free base, ..."
6. The Principles of Inorganic Chemistry by Wilhelm Ostwald (1904)
"If the acid is so weak that its salts, even with strong bases, are hydro- lyzed,
ie broken down by water into the free acid and the free base, the free base ..."