ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Morphine in Opium
Wittwer, JD
Forensic chemist, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Dallas Regional Laboratory, Texas

(Received 1 April 1972; accepted 19 October 1972)

Abstract

Opium is obtained from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It contains 25 to 30 alkaloids. Commercially, morphine, narcotine (noscapine), papaverine, thebaine, codeine, and narceine are considered the most important of these alkaloids.

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Paper ID: JFS10023J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10023J
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