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To: MotleyGirl70

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Chemistry Set

(Now, that one was a blast, literally! We could make explosives, and there is still, 50 years later, a stain (showing through the paint) on my mother's kitchen ceiling my youngest brother put there early one morning!)


20 posted on 12/24/2006 6:30:24 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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Chemistry Set - (Now, that one was a blast, literally! We could make explosives, and there is still, 50 years later, a stain (showing through the paint) on my mother's kitchen ceiling my youngest brother put there early one morning!)

The latest "Chemistry sets" are so dumbed down and made "child safe" that they are BORING, BORING, BORING. No alcohol lamps, no alcohol, no "dangerous" chemicals, nothing that can stain...

69 posted on 12/24/2006 8:07:28 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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