Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 166722)

I had a chemistry set when I was 10.

Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 166510)

It's Wednesday October seventeenth. Your fear of the day, direct from a banner headline on CNN.com is:


Over the last 37 Years an average of 2 infants per year have died as a result of taking cough medicine. Out of Millions of doses per year.

Have these meds done no good at all? Sure they don't cure the colds but they do treat the symptoms allowing for more rest and a quicker recovery time. Now that these meds are being removed can we expect more colds to progress into walking pneumonia or other complications? How many parents will start giving their kids adult cold meds (you know some will) and what effect will that have?

People die from milk and peanut allergies every year but we don't ban these products? Why not? Because a very small percentage of people having a sever allergic reaction does not mean a product is unsafe.

Perhaps a more reasonable course of action would be to educate parents that you don't dose the kid up at the first sign up a sniffle. As our pediatrician told us "Fever is your friend" up to a point.

Originally Posted by Disneyphile (Post 166726)

So did I! It even had an oil jar fueled "bunsen" burner. I used to burn things with it. ;)

I also used to mix some chemicals and make things turn pretty colors.

Oh, wait. That last part was the egg dying at Easter. I'm sure there will be some "study" out there soon that shows someone has died (or dyed) from it, and then they'll ban that too. Watch out! We're all gonna dye!!!

Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 166731)

Of course this much fun always comes at a price...

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 166765)

I am not sure what you could do with the granular stuff)

Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 166771)

Use it to make one hell of a thermos.

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 166779)

See, I was trying to find what needed to be done to turn the granular material into a "solid" piece. Since the melting temperature of the material is 2,200 degrees F, I am hoping there is some way to make it a solid without using heat.