Electronics is still not so bad, but today's chemistry sets have definitely lost a bit of their "fun" parts ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/t

Electronics is still not so bad, but today's chemistry sets have definitely lost a bit of their "fun" parts ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-the-chemistry-set-70359831/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-rise-and-f... "... Sodium cyanide can dissolve gold in water, but it is also a deadly poison. “Atomic” chemistry sets of the 1950s included radioactive uranium ore. Glassblowing kits, which taught a skill still important in today’s chemistry labs, came with a blowtorch."