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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26708815, member: 27832&quot;]I remember <i>reading</i> about carbon tet fire extinguishers, but they certainly weren&#039;t in use in my lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first got interested in chemistry in elementary school, a favorite aunt gave me the UNESCO &quot;700 science experiments&quot; book. It wasn&#039;t <i>titled</i> &quot;science for places where equipment is expensive and life is cheap&quot;, but it certainly should have been. A number of experiments called for mercury and/or carbon tet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I talked my parents and my school into letting me order some stuff from one of the science catalogs. I think I ordered a four-ounce bottle of carbon tet. They sent a gallon jug.</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably used about half a pint of it over the course of my home-chemistry career. I found it was great for resuscitating Mom&#039;s Wite-Out correcting fluid that had dried out (sorry, Mom). I ended up lugging the still-mostly-full jug (carbon tet is <i>heavy</i>) to the hazardous-chemical collection window at my college. I&#039;m still kind of miffed at myself for doing so - <i>every once in a while</i> it&#039;s good to have on hand, and just try getting your hands on any now. (But do <i>not</i> try getting any on your hands, of course.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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