Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Sat, 15 May 1999 19:45:56 -0400 (EDT)
To "list mind":
I think it was yesterday I read an op ed piece, I think in the NY Times,
by someone who said that as an 11-year old boy he could get potassium
cyanide at the local drugstore for his chemistry experiments. He described
how the curiosity encouraged by chemistry sets & the like had led many
into the sciences, then lamented that with all the regulations today, the
set would be almost without chemicals.
I'd meant to go back & re-read, also save, but being exemplary citizens we
bound up the week's newspapers for recycling last night & somehow this got
into it. So, aside from mentioning what is certainly of interest to all of
us, I wondered if anyone had seen the item and could give me the
coordinates. ??
He also said, by the way, that you couldn't even get copper sulphate any
more. I HOPE that was hyperbole, because copper sulfate needs to be with
us...
thanks and cheers,
Judy
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