‘Yellow cake’, an item of smuggling across borders is
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- Aa crude form of heroinCorrect
- Ba crude form of cocaine
- Curanium oxide
- Dunrefined gold
Explanation
The correct answer is A. While yellow cake is a common term for uranium concentrate in industrial contexts, in the specific context of international smuggling and the illicit narcotics trade, it refers to a crude or impure form of heroin. In this sense, it describes the yellowish, unrefined paste or powder produced during the early stages of morphine extraction from opium before it is fully processed into high grade white heroin.
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