Even in the early 70's, my chemistry set was full of poisonous chemicals. They were all clearly labelled, "Don't eat". I didn't eat and survived. Can't remember exactly what was in there, but it at least had cobalt chloride and sodium ferrocyanide.
OTOH, I do remember an experiment where you mixed two chemicals and got a precipitate. You filtered the precipitate out and what was left was sodium chloride, i.e. salt water. The instruction manual said you could taste it! Even for those days that seems a little extreme! Scott On Apr 18, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On CSPAN's Book TV yesterday the President of Dow Chemical stated that their >> *starting* salary for newly graduated chemical engineers is now $120K. That >> $10 chemistry set might have been a good investment. > > That kids father was either really smart or stupid. We don't know. > He could of been a chemist and read the content and made an informed > decision. For example, "no we are not heating Mercury in an open test > tube, not in my house." Or he could have been ignorant and had a fear > of "chemicals" not knowing what scary sounding things like "sodium > chloride" is. If it was a 50's vintage set I'd not be surprised if > there was something really dangerous in there. After all this was the > period when they sold hot chassis TV sets and cars with no seat belts > just to save a buck or two. > -- > ===== > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
