Chemistry set Kickstarter looks to recapture the wonder of days gone by

Geek.com ^ | Nov 14, 2013 | Graham Templeton

[AdmSmith]

Nowadays the kits are fancy, but the chemicals are censored.
This http://www.hometrainingtools.com/chem-c3000-kit/p/KT-CHEM3K/ is their most expensive kit, but the chemicals are only sodium bisulfate, sodium carbonate, potassium hexacyanoferrate, calcium hydroxide, ammonium iron sulfate, ammonium chloride, copper sulfate, litmus powder, sulfur, iron filings, potassium permanganate, potassium iodide, potassium bromide, sodium thiosulfate, activated charcoal.

[AdmSmith]

Those were the days when you could demonstrate liquid nitrogen with your bare hands. Professor Julius Sumner Miller from 1969.

14 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNShaIM_OZ8

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