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Title: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: ericg77 on November 27, 2016, 08:30:57 AM
What is the market price of Nicotine Alkaloid and where to buy it? Why is it so hard to find information about raw Nicotine? Is it forbidden?
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: Hunter2 on November 27, 2016, 09:48:49 AM
Its very poisson stuff.

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search?term=nikotin&interface=All&N=0&mode=match%20partialmax&lang=de&region=DE&focus=product
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: mjc123 on November 28, 2016, 04:55:11 AM
Sounds fishy to me!
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: ericg77 on December 02, 2016, 07:04:35 AM
Sounds fishy to me!

Why fishy? I want to calculate price of producing my own insecticide as Nicotine is almost the only natural insecticide that works. However it appears to be expensive and poisonous..
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: ericg77 on December 02, 2016, 07:05:16 AM
Its very poisson stuff.

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search?term=nikotin&interface=All&N=0&mode=match%20partialmax&lang=de&region=DE&focus=product

Thanks! And appears to be very expensive too
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: mjc123 on December 02, 2016, 07:23:32 AM
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Why fishy?

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Its very poisson stuff.
(French)
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: Hunter2 on December 02, 2016, 07:24:52 AM
The more cheaper way is to extract Nicotine from Tabacco. There are several methods. And for insecticide it has not to be clean, the brown liquid works as well.

It was meant poison not poisson. this was a mistyping,
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: Borek on December 02, 2016, 07:42:02 AM
However it appears to be expensive and poisonous..

Exactly because it is so poisonous it is so hard to get if you are not able to prove you know what you are doing.

And everyone not working in a professional lab, trying to buy a poison, raises suspicions. That's what makes your question fishy.
Title: Re: Nicotine Alkaloid
Post by: Arkcon on December 02, 2016, 12:25:24 PM
As was said, its pretty easy to make a water solution from tobacco, and spray it on plants.  Enough nicotine will poison aphids, as an example.  I'd even heard of people used this sort of stewed tobacco as a wood finish.

Please be careful, especially when spraying, you can inhale or otherwise ingest, enough nicotine, by this method to injure or kill yourself.  No, I don't gradually like a smoker, I mean, hospital trip and you die there.