Dextroamphetamine

=**__ Dextroamphetamine - C9NH13 - Molar Mass: 135.2062__**=

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__Medical Uses:__
The carbon compound Dextroamphetamine is used as an "energy booster." This compound is made into a pill and is used for various reasons. This pill/compound is used in the Military and also serves as a medical treatment for ADHD. To this day, studies are still being performed on this compound to treat other diseases. The recreational use of this compound is used as a study aid and yet ,sadly, used as a party drug. This compound is also an experimental compound in treating depression.

__Armed Forces Use:__
The air force refers to these pills as their "go pills " for long missions where the pilots have to stay awake and focus on long flights. These pills are also deployed on the battle field and at stationary bases. If a soldier is sleeping and is called out to war, they will be issued some of these pills to wake up and become deployed as quick as possible. These pills are still used to this day in all of our military branches.

__History:__
However, in 1932 the pharmaceutical company Smith,Kline & French introduced this compound as a bronchodilator, which is a substance that dilates the lungs to open an airway to the lungs .This compound is also an experimental compound in treating depression. In the Vietnam war, the commanding officer was issued Dextroamphetamine tablets to disperse to each of his soldiers in need of energy or focus. Since the Vietnam war was a very energy straining war and this compound made it somewhat easier to focus.

__**How Does this Compound Work?**__
This compound has effects that only certain chemicals in the brain which are neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are known as chemical messengers that neurons use to communicate with each other. The neurotransmitters are soaked into small junctions between neurons called synapses. The older the neurotransmitter the more effect it has on the brain. Dextroamphetamine slows the rate at which two different neurotransmitters are pumped out of the synapse.

__**Where/How can you Obtain this?**__
You can obtain Dextroamphetamine by being diagnosed with ADHD.

This can be prescribed to kids or adults with this disorder. The making of this compound is illegal and you can be charged with breaking both federal and state laws.

__Specific Properties__:

 * Boiling Point- 200 Degrees Celsius
 * Melting Point- 27.5 Degrees Celsius
 * Density in Natural State- 0.94 g/cm3
 * Solubility- It is slightly soluble in water
 * Percentage Composition by Mass
 * Carbon- 79.95%
 * Nitrogen -10.36%
 * Hydrogen- 9.69%
 * Percentage Composition by Number
 * Nitrogen - 4.3%
 * Hydrogen - 56.5%
 * Carbon - 39.2%
 * This compound consists of single bonded atoms other than in the benzene. The benzene atom contains double bonded atoms.

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