Any of you guys remember a forum called Nan’s Nook, later renamed to The Nook? That place really got me into “drug” science. And I was just trying to learn to grow some mushrooms… Definitely learned a lot there, and such characters.
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I wouldn’t have pursued lab without mushrooms. I’m going to be pissed if they did this to me. I thought I was learning through my own intrinsic motivation this whole time.
In reality they may be programming us to procreate more efficiently. And that terrifies me.
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Would have been probably 12-14 in class with Mr. Klein where he lit a strip of magnesium on fire, that reaction always stuck with me.
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Magnesium fires are some of my favorite.
Random: there is a aerosol spray can for automotives I forget the name. But essentially would shoot 5-15 feet long bursts of magnesium and I would add fire and have a flamethrower that also kept burning on the ground for a while. It was magical. Like shooting ropes of fire.
Found it when I was a kid and made a pentagram with it haha
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Fuck yeah dude! Please find out what that’s called as I wanna introduce it to the ant hill in my backyard
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This should do the trick
https://benamiautocare.com/product/hi-tech-import-magnesium-spray-paint/
Definitely something similar to this.
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Magnesium is the secret to starting off a thermite reaction as well…
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Yeah I would love to hear more…
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Got many more. Some I need to calculate the statute of limitation of each state before we go too deep.
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And the secret of magnesium is that it actually “burns” with the nitrogen in the air, forming magnesium nitride, Mg2N3.
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Chlorine and isopropyl was how we did this
It takes a few minutes to start but once that reaction gets going it’ll blow up a glass bottle even
Don’t try this at home kids
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the toilet cleaner with aluminum foil was always fun too lol
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Grew up in the deep south. My mother got me a chemistry set when I was 10. Felt like magic. Lots of “experimenting” in high school. My chemistry teacher in high school told me I couldn’t sleep through her class and make an A or a B so she gave me a C.
Once I realized it would always be something that would challenge me I couldn’t stop. Undergrad in biochem, grad school for molecular genetics, half a decade in pharma QC. Whenever I think I’m done with it something comes along and I dig back in.
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My son(9 now) used to ask for citric acid and sodium bicarbonate when he was 4, to make volcanos.
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Hmm… It was the time I accidently created chloroform by mixing bleach and IPA at work.
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