scienceboi
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Where can I get penicillium molds for making penicillin?
I want to make amoxicillin, but need penicillin to start with.
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DraconicAcid
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Let some bread go mouldy, and pick the most penicilliny fuzzy patches?
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Make sure you get the right one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium
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Readily available at carolina - not restricted to schools and businesses.
https://www.carolina.com/fungi/penicillium-notatum-high-yiel...
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You should really buy a cultivated strain, penicillium is easily isolated, they are the once that turn green on your bread. But the penicillin
production in the early days, based on randomly found strains, was terrible to say the least. Many, many fungal selections were done to obtain strains
that produce noteworthy levels of penicillin.
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