Comments on: “Chemistry set with no chemicals” https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 16 May 2011 14:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: First they came for the chemistry sets, and then they came for the Wiccan spell sets . . . « Siouxsie Law https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-121130 Mon, 16 May 2011 14:13:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-121130 […] Overlawyered reports (via BoingBoing) that due to fear of liability kids’ chemistry sets are now being sold without chemicals– The liability-phobic dilution of kids’ science has reached its apotheosis with ‘CHEMISTRY 60?: a chemistry kit that promises ‘60 fun activities with no chemicals.’ Kids are expected to supply the chemicals from their parents’ kitchen cupboards.   Overlaweryed (quoting Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing); see also Sean Michael Ragan, MAKE; Chemical & Engineering News, RSC. […]

]]> By: Jthim Collins https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-121028 Mon, 16 May 2011 01:30:51 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-121028 They didn’t have them when I was a kid either. That’s the nice thing about having nephews, you get to revisit childhood and this time you are the responsible adult.

]]> By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120957 Sun, 15 May 2011 18:55:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120957 I don’t think they had food processors when I was a kid, back in the Dark Ages…

]]> By: Jim Collins https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120943 Sun, 15 May 2011 17:36:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120943 Food processor works wonders, Bill. You can usually snag one at a thrift store for about 5 bucks.

]]> By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120818 Sun, 15 May 2011 00:36:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120818 If you do substitute finely ground charcoal for the aluminum powder, you may find it best not to use your mother’s kitchen grater to produce it. My mother was not keen on this.

]]> By: Bob Lipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120726 Sat, 14 May 2011 13:41:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120726 Or do what I used to do, which was to combine iodine and ammonia, for that big boom.

Bob

]]> By: Le Mur https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120724 Sat, 14 May 2011 13:35:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120724 specifically sulfur, potassium perchlorate, and powdered aluminum,

A note for the suppressed kids reading this blog: you can substitute saltpeter for the perchlorate and still get real fireworks that explode like they should; for slower burning gunpowder/rocket fuel, also substitute finely ground charcoal for the aluminum powder.

]]> By: kdny https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/chemistry-set-with-no-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-120719 Sat, 14 May 2011 13:13:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22980#comment-120719 I was always amazed to realized that the older chem sets came with radioactive materials.
And now the come with nothing.

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