22 Aug
2006
22 Aug
'06
8:33 p.m.
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:06 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8/22/2006 at 7:18 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I have worked with sulfuric acid in the course of running a retail battery
store, it's not a big deal, really. Mercury? Yeah, there's some around,
but I haven't found much of a use for it. Lead and lead salts? In car
batteries, for sure...
What sorts of stuff would you do with those ingredients anyway?
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 06:14 pm, Tony Duell
wrote:
The really old turn-of-the-century books have the kids using sulfuric acid,
mercury, lead and lead salts,... Many of the projects would give the Health and
Safety Nazis fits these
days. Asbestos board, anyone?
Indeed. The version I remember from "electric shop" in 7th grade used a
couple of strips of metal which were mounted to about a 6 inch square of
the stuff. Sometimes I think we're a bit overprotective.
Yes.
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