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Who had a kick-arse chemistry set as a kid?

Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:41 am
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
77930 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:41 am
I figure today about 95% of the chemicals provided are probably on a 'ban' list or not available.





too bad. used to cook up some crazy shite as a kid.
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
32701 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:43 am to
I had one and the only real thing we ever made was invisible ink.

The rest of the time we would just add random stuff together, add a drop of random liquid, and shake it.
Posted by CaptSpaulding
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:45 am to
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98123 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:47 am to
Atomic lab > chemistry set



LINK
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
26415 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:48 am to
My brother had one... He use to light the sulfur on fire to watch it turn blue... I wonder if the fumes we inhaled was bad for us...?
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
34934 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:48 am to
I had a stick and a hoop
Posted by Dandy Lion
Member since Feb 2010
50247 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:49 am to
Theodore J. Kaczynski
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5479 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:49 am to
we used to mix bleach and ammonia together and throw it at kids we didnt like
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
26415 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:50 am to
quote:

we used to mix bleach and ammonia together and throw it at kids we didnt like


Know how I know you’re lying....
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98123 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 10:50 am to
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we used to mix bleach and ammonia together and throw it at kids we didnt like


STM grad?
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5479 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:05 am to
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Know how I know you’re lying...


It's also great for cleaning in confined spaces
Posted by pjab
Member since Mar 2016
5643 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:08 am to
Did everyone’s neighborhood have the urban legend about the kid who was blinded by an exploding glass bottle containing chlorine and Coke or was it just mine?
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
26415 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:12 am to
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chlorine and Coke


???

Chlorine and Pinesol....
Posted by Mr Clean
Pit Bull Paradise
Member since Aug 2006
49025 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:13 am to
Meth lab for dummies
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
Member since Jan 2007
51342 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:38 am to
Me me me.

Found out many years later my grandparents were so scared they replaced all the chemicals with stuff from kitchen
Posted by pjab
Member since Mar 2016
5643 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:43 am to
They must have used Pinesol on the good side of West Napoleon.
Posted by Slagathor
Makin' jokes about your teeny tiny
Member since Jul 2007
37807 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:45 am to
quote:

Who had a kick-arse chemistry set as a kid?


It was the 90's so it was probably not as kick-arse as some others here, but I loved the hell out of that. Same year I got the rock candy crystal growing kit.

Probably why I love science and I'm chubby.
Posted by johnnyrocket
Ghetto once known as Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2013
9790 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:49 am to
Oh yeah use to live to burn sulphur and I did not know what I was doing.

I even burnt up my mother’s new leather couch accidentally. I set the test tube with sulphur on fire and accidentally panicked throwing it in the couch when I was 5.

Let’s see that leather couch.
- I stabbed it 4 times when my mom went outside to put the garbage can out when I was three. Remember it well. Locked her out, used the stool to get a kitchen knife, and cut up the couch, and let her back in blaming it on the poodle. Got spanked and sent to my room.

- I watch my mom iron and when she put the iron down I put it in the couch and burnt a hole in it at 4 yrs old. Got spanked and sent to be without my dinner.

- I poured a burning test tube of sulphur on it a year after she had it recovered. Got the board of education on my butt and sent to bed without my dinner.

- Beat the heck out of a kick in kindergarten for taking my tricycle. Grandpa gave me a high five and mom spanked me sending me to bed without my dinner.
This post was edited on 11/15/19 at 2:11 pm
Posted by OceanMan
Member since Mar 2010
19966 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:55 am to
I had creepy crawlers and it was dangerous.

It was basically a little oven that cooked plastic in metal molds. What could go wrong?
This post was edited on 11/15/19 at 2:24 pm
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
10578 posts
Posted on 11/15/19 at 12:02 pm to
I mixed two chemicals together from a 100-piece set that came in a red metal box. I had no idea what I mixed but they began foaming rapidly so I threw the jar I mixed them in out an open window. Next day the grass beneath the window was dead and nothing ever grew there again.

Awesome memory 'cause I survived.
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