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extractions used were not able to separate the components found
in Ecstasy and would not be viable for chemists to use for future
analysis.

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In one and two dimensional TLC, it was observed that with the
solvent systems used, the drugs of interest separated out together in
the same layer thus they did not provide distinct separation. It was
determined that based on the poor separation provided between the
components in the tablets that TLC would be an ineffective technique using these seven solvent systems.

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