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

I did, I think they discontinued them because you were able to make meth.

I did. I put all the sulfur in the lid of a Mason jar and put it over the burner until the sulfur caught on fire. Inside the house.

Then I didn't have a chemistry set anymore.

one year for christmas my dad cut a hole in my pocket so i'd have something to play with

I stumbled upon some unique chemistry by accident. I was at a friend’s house and spilled some brake fluid into a bucket of those pool chlorine granules. After a brief delay, it smoked, then burst into flames.

I remembered that later in life and used it in a high school speech class as part of a demo for making improvised explosives. I got an A and the teacher was impressed. Trying that today would get me on a terrorist watch list.

Think mine was this

quote:

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Next day the grass beneath the window was dead and nothing ever grew there again.

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See had you written down what the mixture was could have made a fortune on herbicide

Nothing that fancy but everyone had them in the early 60's.

Friend/neighbor of Edgar and Johnny Winter told me that their entire garage was turned into a chem lab. Both were freakin geniuses in school.