Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

**AtW** · 13 January 2012, 14:36

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

**zeitghost** · 13 January 2012, 14:47

Science Leads the Way

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

**Doggy Styles** · 13 January 2012, 17:28

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

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.

**RSoles** · 13 January 2012, 18:57

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** · 13 January 2012, 22:47

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.

**xoggoth** · 13 January 2012, 23:42

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** · 14 January 2012, 08:34

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.

**Doggy Styles** · 16 January 2012, 09:51

Originally posted by zeitghost

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.

**Arturo Bassick** · 16 January 2012, 09:55

Originally posted by RSoles View Post

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?

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab