#Cooking cocaine into crack turned gray crack#

Then others come along and run with this in their biography and it turns out like a game of chinese whispers. Thus they can put spin on it and make you out to be a sinner, saint or martyr at their chosing irrespective of the truth of the matter. The reason is that convieniently neither you nor your friends and relatives can correct the biographers assertions based on at best very incomplete information. However you become of more interest to biographers if you are sufficiently (in)famous and (preferably long) dead. Their answer was lengthy but apparently outside of a niche interest group, for generalised reading and if you are still alive you need a life style that appeals to the readers baser instincts or to have been (in)famous in some way. I once asked them whilst out walking what made a person or animal suitable for a biography. But as it was a nich market they had started to branch out. They wrote mainly about military related acts of bravery in people and animals. I used to know some one that wrote short biographies for various magazines as a hobby. Sadly my life does not have enough of those “hooks” that sell a biography to the masses, That process creates more stress than soda-lime glass can withstand, so an entire underground industry was forced to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart to test tubes and beakers stolen from labs.

#Cooking cocaine into crack turned gray crack#

One unfortunate use of Pyrex is cooking crack cocaine, which involves a container of water undergoing a rapid temperature change when the drug is converted from powder form.

It doesn’t shatter immediately, because the expansion first acts only to release some of the built-in stress. It is stronger than borosilicate glass, but when it’s heated, it still expands as much as ordinary glass does.

With pre-stressed, or tempered, glass, the surface is under compression from forces inside the glass. When World Kitchen took over the Pyrex brand, it started making more products out of prestressed soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate. Unintended Security Consequences of the New Pyrex Recipe