There was a time when there were chemistry sets for sale as gifts to kids ... Mostly rather mild stuff - pretty colors, bad smells, melted plastic. This is har

There was a time when there were chemistry sets for sale as gifts to kids ... Mostly rather mild stuff - pretty colors, bad smells, melted plastic. This is hard core chemistry lab. Choice bit on a particularly explosive paper: If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. P.S. the URL posted is not for the exact piece which is currently at the top; that's http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won... P.P.S. don't miss out on the comments - some are as amusing as the post, and there's even a call for a web business at #46 ...