The defendants moved for summary judgment based on the fact that Ries had not provided evidence that HFCS and citric acid are artificial.

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The company is just now beginning to see results, finding, for instance, that other components, like citric acid, influence the salty taste of a product.

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Rauf described how the duo then began purchasing bomb components, including hydrogen peroxide in gardening stores, hexamine in camping stove fuel and citric acid, which was easily available.

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The solution (pun intended) involved tacking sodium dithionite and hydro-chloride onto the antibiotic, making it into a water-soluble salt. (Drugs prepared as hydrochlorides are commonplace.) To keep the chemicals from oxidizing, Adams tested 50 different agents, such as citric acid and ascorbic acid, and played with various ratios until he got the right pH balance.

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