Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

[BlasterBates]

You can still get these rather interesting

marbles

[Mich the Tester]

Chemistry sets aren't the same either these days, they've got food colourings,
filter paper and plastic test-tubes in case you hurt yourself with glass ones.

We want magnesium and sulphuric acid back.
And potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. (sorry Zeity).

WHS

I think all really good toys and games exert a certain evolutionary pressure. The original Raleigh Chopper, tall climbing frames above a concrete surface and tree huts are good examples.

[Arturo Bassick]

Chemistry sets aren't the same either these days, they've got food colourings,
filter paper and plastic test-tubes in case you hurt yourself with glass ones.

We want magnesium and sulphuric acid back.
And potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. (sorry Zeity).

Do you still get Iron Filings?

[Doggy Styles]

One of my mates "liberated" a bottle of HF when the factory closed.

Can't imagine why, but the husband of one of his wife's friends was a chemist & nearly had a fit when he found out.

Not nice stuff, HF.

It kills you in most unpleasant ways.

CPCS: Hydrofluoric Acid

Stone me.

When I was at school, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric and Nitric were the Barcelona, Real Madrid and Man United of the acid world. Hydroflouric didn't get much of a mention. It must be the Man City, a sort of johnny-come-lately acid.

[Doggy Styles]

When I were at school we couldn't get sodium. Had to go to a specialist for that. It came in small chunks in a brown bottle of oil.

[xoggoth]

I've still got some bottles of sulphuric and hydrochloric acid in my shed. Never know when they might come in handy. Brought the last at a hardware store. Bet you can't do that now.

[Doggy Styles]

And that blue stuff, copper sulphate. Did you have wood chippings in yours?

A paraffin burner came with my set. I made a bunsen burner at school in metalwork, took it home and realised I had nothing to plug it in to.

Mind you, when I'd tested it at school it was a bit fierce so it was probably just as well.

[RSoles]

Chemistry sets aren't the same either these days, they've got food colourings,
filter paper and plastic test-tubes in case you hurt yourself with glass ones.

We want magnesium and sulphuric acid back.
And potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. (sorry Zeity).

[Doggy Styles]

Science Leads the Way

Those were the days, men were men & everything was radioactive.

And exposure to high levels of radioactivity gave you super-powers.

Or turned you into a dangerous mutant.

[zeitghost]

Science Leads the Way

Those were the days, men were men & everything was radioactive.

[AtW]

You mean like this one - http://uboat.net/boats/u238.htm

[IR35 Avoider]

I wonder if Toys-R-Us stock the modern equivalent?

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951)

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