While the euphoria subsided, I was still feeling the high on Monday, when I went to work after school, determined to succeed there, too.
I started collecting all the data on the compounds I'd identified, testing all the different protocols for purification. I had a few compounds that were identical to the off-the-shelf Yllamese d**g we were trying to copy, at least according to all the tests I performed, but there seemed to be something slightly different in their structures. Something was not right, and that had been bugging me for a while.
I examined the painstakingly detailed tables with the chemical properties of all the compounds I'd identified. The simple chemical formula, the components, were the same. But the chemical structure was different.
And, while there are techniques and
