Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules

Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by WalterBright on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:05PM (#22552146)

Chemistry sets were emasculated right around 1970. I know because I got one of the good ones immediately prior. Had lots of fun making stink bombs, burning various chemicals just to see what would happen, dissolving things in acid, generating hydrogen gas, etc.

The ones after 1970 were like "hey, watch salt dissolve in water."

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Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:35AM (#22554080)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_E...

https://archive.org/details/GoldenBookOfChemistryExperiments...

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Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by tonyarkles on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:28AM (#22554051)

I was lucky enough that mine (late 80s) at least had some acid and magnesium. And although “just burn the magnesium” wasn’t part of the instruction booklet, my dad knew enough to make it cool. We also filled balloons with hydrogen and lit them with a match. Otherwise though, grew lots of copper sulfate crystals...

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Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by ethbro on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:29PM (#22553419)

Looking back on it, the chemistry set I got in the 90s could have easily been outdone by rooting around under the kitchen sink with a copy of the AC.

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