On 12-02-09 11:02 AM, Nicholas Stock wrote:

We used benzene at school, made aspirin on the bench, threw lumps of
sodium in water (with one classroom evacuation as a result...got a bit
frisky that one...)....I imagine /none/ of that would be allowed these
days....

Grade 9, about 1968, the chemistry techer had everyone in the class stick their finger in the jar of (very dirty) mercury. Grade 12 the same teacher told us he was not allowed to open (The same) jar but we should look at it closely through the glass.

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