Guide to Ghetto Chemistry

George Melons, the Assistant says: "Hey, kid. Wanna buy some Space Drugs? You askin' how I made it? Well, I threw a bunch of random trash an'a dead mouse in a blender and heated it up with a lighter, of course! Easy as that."

Starting out

So, you are an average Greytide and you want to be a Walter White. How do you do it? First off, you're gonna wanna get these things to get started with ghetto chem.

• A few beakers, soda cans, bottles, etc
• A couple of tables to store your beakers, so you don't spill your shit on the floor

Most importantly, without this you dont have ghetto chem:

• An all in one grinder, to grind some things into liquid form. Optionally make a mortar and pestle .

Optionally:

• A ChemMaster 3000 to separate and bottle chemicals.

tl;dr go to the holodeck and boot up the medical program! Remember that you can use matches, lighters, and igniters to heat containers as well.

Grindables

Not only can you steal things, but you can also 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
Ash	Burning a paper and scooping up the ash with a beaker (30u)
Aluminium	Crushed soda cans (crush on your head first) (10u), deconstruct smart metal foam grenades (75u)
Blood	Dead mouse (20u), or use a syringe to extract from a monkey or human
Carbon	Wooden planks (20u), coal (20u), cigarette butts (2u)
Copper	Cable coils (2u per wire)
Cryoxadone	Steal one of the spare cryoxadone beakers from medical. On Metastation, maintenance bar also has one.
Ethanol	Spraycans (15u)
Fluorosulfuric acid	Deconstruct smart metal foam grenades (25u)
Fluorosurfacant	Deconstruct cleaner grenades (40u)
Gibs	Dead mouse (5u), scooping up gibs from floor (5u)
Gold	Gold coin (4u), robust Gold cigarettes (premium cigarette vendor item) (3u)
Hydrogen	Glowsticks (10u)
Iodine	Toner cartridge (40u), photographs (4u), pens (1u)	Toner cartridges can be found in airlock painters.
Iron	Metal (20u), plasteel (20u), lollipops (10u), electronics (10u), reinforced glass (10u), reinforced plasma glass (10u), toner cartridge (10u), pens (2u), power cells (5u), lighters (1u)
Lithium	Any power cell, including potato batteries (15u)
Liquid Electricity	High-power energy bars (3u)
Lye	Soap (10u)
Mercury	Analyzer (5u)
Nicotine	Cigarettes (around 15u), cigars (up to 40u)
Nitrogen	Lightbulbs (10u) and canned air (24u)
Nutriment	Food
Oil	Lighters (5u), using a beaker on oil spills (30u)
Omnizine	Heated donk pockets (3u)
Oxygen	Canned air (6u) and glowsticks (5u)
Phenol	Glowstick (15u)
Phosphorus	Matches (2u), deconstruct a teargas grenade (40u)
Plasma	Solid plasma (20u), plasteel (20u), plasma glass (10u), reinforced plasma glass (10u), Nanotrasen brand soap (10u)
Potassium	Deconstruct a tear gas grenade (40u)
Radium	Scoop up from glowing goo in RND (5u)
Silicon	Glass (20u), reinforced glass (20u), reinforced plasma glass (20u), circuit boards (20u), electronics (10u), light bulbs (5u), power cell (5u), analyzer (5u)
Silver	Silver coin (4u)
Sodium Chloride	Salt shakers (20u), cup ramen (3u), beef jerky (2u), chips (1u)	A reagent analyzer says a salt shaker contains table salt, but this is the same as sodium chloride.
Silver sulfadiazine	Ointment (60u)
Smart foaming agent	Deconstruct a smart metal foam grenade (25u)
Space cleaner	Deconstruct cleaner grenades (10u)
Styptic powder	Bruise pack (60u)
Sugar	Dutch hot coco (5u), space twinkie (4u), 4no raisins (4u), candy (3u), cheesie honkers (3u), chips (3u), beef jerky (3u), donuts (2u), deconstruct a tear gas grenade (40u)
Sulfur	Flare (15u)
Uranium	Scoop up from glowing goo in RND (5u)
Water	Sinks, or Water tanks
Welding Fuel	Lighters (5u), or Welding fuel tanks