{"id":29,"date":"2015-04-09T04:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/?p=29"},"modified":"2017-11-06T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:26:09","slug":"trying-new-spot-plate-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/2015\/04\/trying-new-spot-plate-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying New Spot Plate Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been trying to come up with better ways to do and photograph the spot plate reagent field tests for the variety of chemicals. Both the ones sold as ecstasy\/molly and the wide variety of substances and pharmaceuticals that people send in for analysis.<\/p>\n

The solid ceramic spot plate we’ve been using for the last 15 years makes it so the colors are hard to see in darker reactions.<\/p>\n

So we’ve been hunting down translucent glass plates but haven’t found many. We would like one that we can use AND recommend to Erowid visitors around the world they can buy for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos comparing the translucent spot plate with the opaque one.<\/p>\n

Old spot plate:<\/p>\n

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A drop of marquis reagent on some random aminated oxygenated phenethylamine-ish chemical.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A drop of marquis reagent on some random aminated oxygenated phenethylamine-ish chemical.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps the most interesting is that all three of these color spots are Marquis + the same chemical. The right hand spot is the oldest (over an hour since drop), the left one is maybe 30+ minutes, and the top middle one was dropped within a minute. This chemical starts off as a grey purple, to a very dark nice blue purple, then goes to a dark blue, then winds up in this greenish gray color.<\/p>\n

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A drop of marquis reagent on some random aminated oxygenated phenethylamine-ish chemical.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been trying to come up with better ways to do and photograph the spot plate reagent field tests for the variety of chemicals. Both the ones sold as ecstasy\/molly and the wide variety of substances and pharmaceuticals that people send in for analysis. The solid ceramic spot plate we’ve been using for the last … Continue reading Trying New Spot Plate Methods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecstasydata","category-spot-color-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}