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Chemistry sets suck nowadays. Some years ago I wanted to buy one for my nieces and nephews. The only one I could find had on it, in bold letters, "No glass! No

• OkayPhysicist 6y ago
  The evolution of chemistry kits over time is really highlighted by the ones my grandfather, father, and myself owned. Grandad's had all the ingredients, and told you how to make, a couple explosive compounds. Dad's had the ingredients, but not instructions. The most dangerous thing I could do with mine was probably eat the copper salts.
  • juanuys 6y ago
    When I was a kid, we'd dig a large hole in the garden, then pop some chlorine and milk in a plastic coke bottle, quick shake, then dump it in the hole and all my mates would very quickly push the soil back onto it. Boom, and "die aarde maak rooibek oop", like that old Afrikaans poem said... Translation: The earth opens its red mouth (due to the red coloured soil)
• A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
  That is so sad. That was one of the things I was really looking forward to. I mean, I guess we can always play with 'safe' stuff ( ferrofluids, oobleck ), but it just won't be the same without going boom.
• runj__ 6y ago
  I never got a chemistry set primarily because my parents thought of them as a bit dangerous. I would have loved a set that was "guaranteed" safe just to get anything at all. I probably wouldn't have become a Nobel prize winning chemist with my n00b/safe set but it might have set something off.
  • lawrenceyan 6y ago
    Ok well now you have to tell us. Nobel prize for what!?