Guide to Ghetto Chemistry

Starting out

So, you are an average Greytide and you want to be a Walter White. How do you do it?

Knowledge

• You need a decent understanding of chemistry: You are going to be cooking without the luxury of a chem dispenser after all, so you will need many additional steps for your workarounds.
• Without a method of analysing / separating chemicals you will even need to mix blindly, so you better know the reactions by heart if you don't want to end up with unhealthy impurities in your product.
• Make a plan of what to get and where to get it. Don't be afraid to make a small shopping-list.
• Think of excuses valid reasons and explanations ahead of time. The Detective will try to do his best to prevent you from learning more about chemistry, so be sure to not get locked up due to some unfortunate missunderstanding.

Tools of the trade

	Equipment	Rating	Description	Where to get
	Containers	Mandatory	A few containers for mixing your substances like beakers, soda cans, bottles, etc	Glasses and bowls from bar / kitchen, cans from vending-machines. Large 100u beakers can be bought in the station-store and make mixing a lot easier. You could also grow your own wood in the garden and make some buckets.
	Grinding-equipment	Mandatory	Needed to extract your chemicals from all kind of things. You can either go the long route and craft a mortar and pestle, which can only grind one item at a time though. Or you go for it and steal an all in one grinder.	The Bartender, the Cook, the Botanist and the Chemist have an all in one grinder, but will probably notice eventually. Remember that they can be bolted down, so you better bring a wrench.
	Heating-equipment	Mandatory	You can use lighters and matches to heat containers for certain recipes, and use them to burn certain things to make ingredients, like burning paper for ash.	Smoking-vending-machines, sometimes there are lighters in arrivals, the dorms or the bar.
	Tables	Optional	You are going to be handling quite a few containers, so having a table is nice, so you don't spill your shit on the floor. Just make sure to remember which container is which when you put them all on the table	Craft them or move and reassemble them, using the tools found in the tool-storage
	Separation-equipment	Optional	A ChemMaster 3000 / Condiment Dispenser so you don't have to mix blindly anymore. This is going to make ghetto-chemistry so much easier since you can use it to determine, separate and bottle chemicals.	The Cook, the Botanist and the Chemist have one. Bring a wrench to move it and try to be stealthy - you are going to serve some time in the brig if you get caught.
	Friends	Optional	A couple friends (that is, if you have any). Do not underestimate the time needed to get all the necessary equipment and ingredients without raising suspicion.	Talk to anyone lurking around toolstorage or the bar without having the Bartender or any other bystanders call security on you. If you are really desperate and feel a bit lucky, you can always ask the Clown for help.

TL;DR: Go to the holodeck and boot up the medical program!

Grindables

Not only can you steal things, you can shove them into a grinder to retrieve chemicals from them!

If you're stealing from Botany, check out the Guide to hydroponics.

Chemical	Sources	Notes
Aluminum	Soda cans (crush on your head first), tin cans, deconstruct smart metal foam grenades
Blood	Dead mouse (rude!), or use a syringe to extract from a monkey or human
Carbon	Cigarette butts, coal, wood
Copper	Cable coils
Cryoxadone	Steal one of the spare cryoxadone beakers from medical
Ethanol	Spraycans
Fluorine	A very small amount in water bottles
Fluorosulfuric acid	Deconstruct smart metal foam grenades
Fluorosurfacant	Deconstruct cleaner grenades
Gibs	Dead mouse
Hydrogen	Glowsticks
Iodine	Toner cartridge, photographs, pens	Toner cartridges can be found in airlock painters.
Iron	Electronics, lighters, tin cans, toner cartridge, pens, plasteel, power cells, reinforced glass
Lithium	Power cells, potato batteries
Lye	Soap
Mercury	Analyzer
Nicotine	Cigarettes, cigars
Nitrogen	Lightbulbs
Nutriment	Food
Oil	Lighters, using a beaker on oil spills
Omnizine	Heated donk pockets
Oxygen	Glowsticks and canned air
Phenol	Glowstick
Phosphorus	Matches, deconstruct a teargas grenade
Plasma	Plasteel, Solid plasma, Plasma glass
Potassium	Deconstruct a tear gas grenade
Silicon	Analyzer, circuit board, electronics, glass, light bulbs, power cells, reinforced glass
Sodium Chloride	Salt shakers	A reagent analyzer says a salt shaker contains table salt, but this functions the same as sodium chloride.
Silver sulfadiazine	Ointment
Smart foaming agent	Deconstruct a smart metal foam grenade
Space cleaner	Deconstruct cleaner grenades
Styptic powder	Bruise packs
Sugar	Donuts, everything except ramen from Getmore Chocolate Corp vending machines, Dutch hot coco, deconstruct a tear gas grenade
Sulfur	Flare
Sulphuric Acid	Circuit board (tiny amounts)
Water	Sinks, or Water tanks
Welding Fuel	Lighters, or Welding fuel tanks