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            "q": "Should I use bacteriostatic water or sterile water to reconstitute a peptide?",
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            "q": "Does the measuring syringe matter once a peptide is reconstituted?",
            "a": "Yes. The Humulin R U-500 label warns that a syringe matched to the wrong concentration can produce a measurement error five times the intended amount."
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