piezoluminescent

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'Owsley [Augustus Owsley Stanley III] was obsessed with making his product as pure as possible'even purer than Sandoz; which described LSD in its scientific reports as a yellowish crystalline substance. As he mastered his illicit craft, Owsley found a way to refine the crystal so that it appeared blue-white under a fluorescent lamp; moreover, if the crystals were shaken, they emitted flashes of light, which meant that LSD in its pure form was piezoluminescent'a property shared by a very small number of compounds.'

'Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD, 1985.

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