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noun
Free base  n.  
1.
(Chem.) The basic form of an organic amine which is capable of forming acid salts such as hydrochlorides.
2.
The basic form of a drug, often more powerful than a salt form because it is more readily absorbed into the blood stream.





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... has been isolated by M. Lobry de Bruyn, and a preliminary account of its mode of preparation and properties is published by him in the current number of the Recueil des travaux chimiques des Pays-Bas (1891, 10, 101). The manner in which the free base was obtained was briefly as follows. About a hundred grammes of hydroxylamine hydrochloride, NH{2}OH.HCl, were dissolved in six hundred cubic centimeters of warm methyl alcohol. To this solution a quantity of sodium dissolved in methyl alcohol was added, in such proportion that ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various
... The free base is liberated by adding to the phenylhydrazine hydrochloride 1 l. of a 25 per cent solution of sodium hydroxide. The phenylhydrazine separates and is taken up with benzene (two 300-cc. portions). The combined extractions are well dried with 200 g. of solid sodium hydroxide, poured off, and distilled. ...
— Organic Syntheses • James Bryant Conant


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