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by a6l6e6x
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10/2/18 5:59:25 PM
10/2/18 5:59:56 PM
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New I had a Gilbert chemistry set as well.
Took a long time to save up the money as my parents had no idea what it was or why one would want one.

I went to a technical high school and had 3 years of Chemistry. One of the courses was qualitative chemistry. Near the end of the course, in the lab part of it, everyone was given a different powder to identify. I was given Potassium Permanganate and identified by sight! Had to run through analysis drill, but that was just for corroboration.

Potassium Permanganate had been in my chemistry kit and is a dark purple crystal. Getting a white powder to identify would have been a different story.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
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I had Gilbert a chemistry set as well.
Took a long time to save up the money as my parents had no idea what it was or why one would want one.

I went to a technical high school and had 3 years of Chemistry. One of the courses was qualitative chemistry. Near the end of the course, in the lab part of it, everyone was given a different powder to identify. I was given Potassium Permanganate and identified by sight! Had to run through analysis drill, but that was just for corroboration.

Potassium Permanganate had been in my chemistry kit and is a dark purple crystal. Getting a white powder to identify would have been a different story.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
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