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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2780593, member: 27832&quot;]Heh. When I was just a little chemistry-set enthusiast, I used to check out chemistry books for kids from the library. It was an old library, and most of the books were from the 1950s and 1960s. Many, if not most, of them said &quot;ask your local pharmacist&quot; to get you the good chemicals -- potassium chlorate, carbon tetrachloride, that sort of fun stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was at a summer residential program in 1979 for high school students, and met a soul-mate of sorts with exactly the same chemistry enthusiasm that I had. We actually went to the town pharmacy and asked for potassium chlorate. The pharmacist asked what we two teenage boys wanted with potassium chlorate. We gave him our best wide-eyed look and said &quot;we&#039;re with the Governor&#039;s School, and we want it for some experiments&quot;. We walked out with all he had. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(I don&#039;t remember where we got everything else, but when the town fireworks on July 4th proved underwhelming, we stepped in. Until the poor campus security officer managed to get there. We promised to stop, and to clean up after ourselves, but I couldn&#039;t resist pointing to the glittery purple pile on top of a manhole cover and saying &quot;just make sure nobody puts any <i>water</i> on that!&quot; The poor guy.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Different times...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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