Chemistry Set

[rey]

Where can you get a REAL chemistry set like we did in the 60s and earlier?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I think I bought mine years ago at a toy store. You might try a hobby store. When all else fails, check eBay. They have everything.

[Gen.Blather]

https://www.bing.com/search?q=professional+chemistry+sets+for+sale&form=EDGNTC&qs=RI&cvid=92cd1f01e57844a2bc752a94b16a20da&pq=chemistry%20sets%20for%20sale

[smokingfrog]

https://www.scientificsonline.com/shop/science-kits/chemistry-kits?Page=1&Sort=featured

[Norm Lenhart]

Dunno but you’ll likely end up on a watch list.

[Lurker]

My parents would be arrested these days.

[kaehurowing]

I think they have been replaced by an app for your smart phone.

[Yo-Yo]

You mean like the ones with U-238 samples?

[Vince Ferrer]

Try your local mosque.

[rey]

Well, if the Iranians can have one, why not me?

[Old Sarge]

Silly guy, that’s only for clocks...

[smokingfrog]

In some States, you need a FBI criminal background check to purchase chemicals. Some metals, like lithium, red phosphorus, sodium and potassium, are almost impossible to purchase in elemental form. This is thanks to their use in manufacturing methamphetamine. Sulphur and potassium nitrate, both useful chemicals, are being classified as class C fireworks. Mail order suppliers of science products are raided. Many over-the-counter compounds now require what is essentially a (poor) background check. Even fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) is under intense scrutiny. Where does this trend end? Ten years from now, will the list include table salt, seawater and natural gas — precursors to many industrial chemicals?

Then there is the liability issue. Of course some people buy into the lets be safe at any cost and assert that much chemistry can be done without explosions and stinky fumes.

[nomad]

My 6th grade science teacher did a cloud chamber experiment for us, that`s pretty advanced physics for a kid`s set.

[rey]

I just saw one of these kits sold for nearly $3k on ebay.

[Fiddlstix]

I had a chemistry set back in the 1940's. Also an erector set.
Yes. Those were made by Gilbert. Most kids my age did have those sets
You can't find anything like those these days. I've tried to buy something like those old ones for my grandchildren.
Nothing like those old time sets are to be found
Heck. Some of the chemicals I had in that old set are illegal to own now.
I kid you not.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Of course some people buy into the lets be safe at any cost and assert that much chemistry can be done without explosions and stinky fumes.

It can but that is not the fun stuff!

[rey]

I saw a supplier, I think out of the midwest, may Iowa, who provided kits in a nice wooden case with all the chemicals we used to get. They were expensive.

[notdownwidems]

Look on ISIS’s website

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I think it was a recent WSJ op-ed which bemoaned the fact that the old style chemistry set does not exist any more.

[Hoodat]

First, go out and find yourself some nitric acid or some powdered aluminum. Then come back and I’ll tell you what to get next.