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Have 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

(, Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
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By the 80's these cubes didn't use batteries, they had a much more exciting fulminate detonator that set off zirconium shreds. The fulminate was set off by a plastic or metal prong that came up from the camera.

Looking back on it they would of made fantastic home made bomb detonators.
(, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 18:42, Reply)

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