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Yay! Excited!

TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
edited 2013-06-08 13:29 in General Discussion
Just received this for my daughter to use this Summer :

http://www.hms-beagle.com/RHAChemSets.html

...fond rememberances of my own chemistry set as a younger-tinkerer....

remember: if it stinks it is chemistry. if it doesn't work it is physics.

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  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-06-06 17:00
    ...lucky young lady!

    :thumb:
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-06-06 18:38
    Very cool! Where are the safety glasses? It it doesn't require safety glasses, its not SCIENCE!
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-06 18:47
    prof_braino wrote: »
    Very cool! Where are the safety glasses? It it doesn't require safety glasses, its not SCIENCE!

    they are there. one nice big very nerdy pair of safety goggles. It even comes with a heavy dute chem-safe work apron. Now THAT'S SCIENCE !
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2013-06-06 18:59
    TaL from the name I'm guessing this is a British product marketed in the UK and not to us USians, because the liability and stupid TERRORIST WITH A FLASK issues have made it impossible to sell a chemistry set here with anything more reactive in it than baking soda and vinegar, and if you put the two in the same flask the FBI shows up.

    I'm so old that I had a real Chemistry set like that when I was a kid, where making little explosions was half the experiments.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-06 19:07
    "H.M.S. Beagle is located in historic downtown Parkville, Missouri at 180 English Landing Drive."

    From the web site:

    http://www.hms-beagle.com/

    Sounds like a fantastic place.

    Takes me back to the days back in Blighty when my local toy store had a shelves of beakers, flasks, tubes, bunsen burners. The whole works we could add to our chemistry labs that started with a chemistry set. Right there next to the Action men and Airfix kits etc.
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-06 19:07
    localroger wrote: »
    TaL from the name I'm guessing this is a British product marketed in the UK and not to us USians, because the liability and stupid TERRORIST WITH A FLASK issues have made it impossible to sell a chemistry set here with anything more reactive in it than baking soda and vinegar, and if you put the two in the same flask the FBI shows up.

    I'm so old that I had a real Chemistry set like that when I was a kid, where making little explosions was half the experiments.

    actually, the HMS Beagle outfit is located in Missouri USA
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-06-06 20:03
    I'm so old that I had a real Chemistry set like that when I was a kid, where making little explosions was half the experiments
    Strange, I remember these kits also but am not "that old"!!! I remember making what could only be summed up as "Exploding blue ink"!!! Mom was not happy and I seem to remember the kit disappearing soon after that one!
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-06 20:06
    we are setting up the chem lab outside on a craftsman workbench, because if we are "successful" there may be occassional outbursts of colored smoke, sparks, fizzy messes and obnoxious odors.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-06-06 22:13
    Odd, but even back in my day we couldn't get our high school to sponsor "Crater Club."
    "But how we ever gonna beat the Russkies to the moon," I protested, "if we can't even test out our hypergolic goliaths after school?"

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  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-06 22:40
    one or two planned craters may be fun, but I do hope there will not be any spontaneous crater formations as a primary or secondary effect of our explorations. LOL
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-08 11:34
    great reading for any budding young chemist out there (an out of print book from days goneby and captured as a pdf):

    http://chemistry.about.com/library/goldenchem.pdf
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-08 12:22
    TinkersALot,

    Don't forget to introduce your daughter to the "Periodic table of Videos". A lot of entertainig chemistry demonstrations in there and Professor Poliakov is wonderful.
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2013-06-08 12:50
    Thanks. I will for sure.
    Heater. wrote: »
    TinkersALot,

    Don't forget to introduce your daughter to the "Periodic table of Videos". A lot of entertainig chemistry demonstrations in there and Professor Poliakov is wonderful.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-08 12:58
    Sorry I forgot the link. I guess you found it anyway:
    http://www.periodicvideos.com/
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-06-08 13:29
    and the elements song

    http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Elements-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/
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