Worthless when stolen,
and extremely difficult with which to damage yourself or others.
Young science teachers learn very quickly to skip the part of the syllabus involving acids and bunsen burners.
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:03,
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Young science teachers learn very quickly to skip the part of the syllabus involving acids and bunsen burners.
Add to that - useless for any other experiment other
than to see the polar effects from a magnet.
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:05,
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not entirely true
if you can get hold of iron filings, aluminium and a strip of magnesium ribbon as a fuse you can weld pretty much anything metal together. It's what holds railway tracks together.
edit: (and lab chairs to floors, staplers to tables etc)
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:08,
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edit: (and lab chairs to floors, staplers to tables etc)
nah....
just an inventive approach to school disruption as a child.
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:17,
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Mmmmmmm...
Potassium Permanganate and er... anything really. With Glycerin it makes a kind of home-made napalm.
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 13:33,
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