Buy A Chemistry Set!
Posted on | April 5, 2010 | Comments Off
One of my happiest memories as a child, is the hours I spent at a small bench at the back of our garage mixing the chemicals provided by my chemistry set. In fact, the best part about a chemistry set was not the set experiments suggested by the instructions, it was the random mixing to make different smells and colours!
A chemistry set containing a variety of simple chemical compounds, some test tubes and a spirit burner, can provide an inquisitive mind with hours of fodder. You begin by following some of the set experiments, mixing an acid with iron filings or with a carbonate and generating gases. Then, you find some coloured chemicals that can be made to change colour by adding other chemicals, and the instructions get left behind as curiosity takes over.
All young people with inquisitive minds should have the opportunity to experiment with “wet” chemistry. Computer simulations are useful and instructive, and enable experiments to be done which go beyond the capacity of a chemistry set. But the actual interaction with temperature changes, smelly gases and physical colour changes are irreplaceable.
It is with “toys” like these that the future ground-breaking scientists of the future will be nurtured!
(Click the image above for the opportunity to purchase a good quality Chemistry Set)
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