Home ScienceHave you split the atom in your kitchen? Made your own fireworks? Fired a bacon rocket through your window?
We love home science experiments - tell us about your best, preferably with instructions.
Extra points for lost eyebrows / nasal hair / limbs
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chthonic, Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
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Some non-explody science.A light-activated reaction I used at work to make one of the starting materials I wanted. Gives off potassium cyanide, though.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:52,
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Holy crap, that's amazing!You've invented a flying beaker!
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That's no beakerIts a boiling flask
(pretending to be clever when I really only know that because of breaking bad)
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Round-bottom flaskOr RBF for short.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:57,
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That window needs a clean.(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 18:02, closed)
The windows and sills were always filthy.It's the plane trees outside - the seeds would make it through the air conditioning and dump themselves all over the lab.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:57,
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"Gives off potassium cyandide though"That's a remarkably casual way to say "It will kill everybody in the room".
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Only if they drink it.It's a solid (unless dissolved), whereas hydrogen cyanide is a gas. We made that from time to time as well.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:56,
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Bit hazyBut doesn't chlorine do something fucked up when exposed to sunlight?
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