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Amusing (though doesn't really get going for a full minute).

The azidoazide azide story is amazing!


[make that chemicalS]
 
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I think all those old sets have chemicals that are considered too toxic or unsafe... and yet they really don't amount to much. Perhaps a lawsuit ended a lot of it.
Heck, the stuff we were doing (with explosives/rockets/etc.) would get us tossed into prison as terrorists today.
 
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Back when I took high school chemistry we used to just throw things in a test tube when the teacher wasn't looking to see what would happen. Shot some mixture across the room one day when I heated it. Still have a small amount of mercury from when we took mercury oxide and heated it, forget what we were trying to prove then.
 
Sulfuric acid and sugar... amazing black gunk comes out of the beaker. Takes a couple of minutes... but wow, after 3 minutes it's rising.
THAT was a good one we used to do. Ruins the beaker/jar.

 
thanks mark, that was a really fun post I like science stuff
 
Mom took my chemistry set away when I made hydrogen sulfide in the house.:sorry:
 
Bayless said:
Mom took my chemistry set away when I made hydrogen sulfide in the house.:sorry:
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That will surely do it. :highly_amused: In my case I was blowing stuff up outside... and made for some unhappy neighbors.
 
Mark said:
Heck, the stuff we were doing (with explosives/rockets/etc.) would get us tossed into prison as terrorists today.
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So true!

Had an AC Gilbert Chemistry Set, played with mercury, packed match heads into small containers, learned about ammonia and iodine... rode a bicycle and a motor scooter with no helmet, shot arrows at targets with a long bow, skied thru the woods on rabbit-run trails without "safety gear."

I guess I should consider myself lucky to have survived childhood!
 
DrEntropy said:
So true!

Had an AC Gilbert Chemistry Set, played with mercury, packed match heads into small containers, learned about ammonia and iodine... rode a bicycle and a motor scooter with no helmet, shot arrows at targets with a long bow, skied thru the woods on rabbit-run trails without "safety gear."

I guess I should consider myself lucky to have survived childhood!
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Yeah, and I read A Wrinkle in Time... :shocked:
 
Thinkin' on it, my reading habits were bent toward LeCarre and Fleming, with a lot of Azimov, Norton and any SciFi "anthology" I could get my mits on.
 
Or be a highly desirable commodity in a ten-man life-raft!!
 
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