The Glade 4.0

I'm making a lab/kit for my almost 10 year old. Am I missing anything?

Vinegar
Baking soda
Litmus paper
Balloons
Salt peter
Borax
Food Coloring
Pipe cleaners
Diet Coke & Mentos
Pennies
Salt
Toothpicks
Cotton swabs
Rubbing Alcohol
Hydrogen Peroxide 3%
Hydrogen Peroxide 6%
Bubble solution
Aluminum Foil
Coffee filters
Vaseline
Matches
Sugar
Vitamin C tablets
Tincture of Iodine
Corn Starch
Corn Syrup
Dawn
Goggles
Gloves
Funnel
Measuring spoons and cups
Medicine dropper
Yeast
Vegetable oil
Ziploc bags
Wooden skewers
Plastic bottles
Kleenex
Alka Seltzer tablets
Epsom Salts


I think that's it. Am I missing anything?

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Potassium Nitrate
Sulphur
Charcoal

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Metal stirring rod.

Sudafed
Red Phosphorous

Wait, what is the purpose of this?

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1M HCL. Can't have too much of that.

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Holy shitsnacks!

WHO WANTS TO COOK SOME METH?

Edit - 4k mark

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Where did you find 6% H2O2?

Nitric acid
HCL
Gold

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No, we're not cooking meth, haha! Just fun experiments for an almost 10 year old with stuff that fizzes, foams, explodes, makes smoke, etc.

Elmo, 6% H2O2 is supposedly available in beauty supply as a 20 volume solution. Going to check it out tomorrow...hoping I can get some because the experiment using this stuff looks like a blast.

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Moose, what is 1M HML?
Taskiss, I already have potassium nitrate on the list as Salt peter.
Where could I get sulphur and charcoal and nitric acid?

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He said HCL, not HML. That you failed to immediately pick up on 1 molar hydrochloric acid speaks heavily about your familiarity with chemistry, and you may wish to reconsider some of your plans. For instance, I would strike nitric acid from your list. Actually, I would ignore any suggestions about materials and experiments that didn't come from Nephyr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molarity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloric_acid

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Yeah, I'm not exactly a chemist, in fact, I made it all the way through high school and college without ever having to take chemistry. I excelled in biology instead.
I vaguely remember something about hydrochloric acid eating your face off or something.

I'm thinking pre-teen level experiments, not high-school level...as in, stuff that probably would be relatively safe but not incredibly boring like growing crystals or making play-doh/corn-starch goop.
I've got a huge number of these experiments lined up, just double-checking to make sure I'm not missing anything obviously awesome.

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I think the difference is that with high school experiments you are looking for exact quantifiable results.

Think more like an average 10 year old...solutions that suddenly change from clear to blue in an instant, homemade smoke bombs and smoke fountains, inflating balloons with yeast or vinegar and baking soda, diet coke and mentos rockets, burning money without destroying it, vegetable oil and coloring with water and alka-seltzer lava lamps, etc.

More like, "fun and exciting intro to chemistry for kids."

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

What I'm saying is, two people have proposed strong acids, and one person has listed a recipe for meth. They're joking. If you have a fairly solid grounding in chemistry, you enjoy your laughs. If you don't, you might be having a ten year-old play around with strong acids. That might not end well.

Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid are fine for college chemistry experiments, and perhaps even high school chemistry experiments. They are not a great idea for a ten year-old, particularly since you aren't trained in proper lab safety. The list you've got in the first post is fine.

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Cmon dissolving gold in a liquid is just cool.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

unitednuclear.com has or at least had a bunch of fun experiments listed for all age ranges and a bunch of cool stuff aside (you could literally build a gun type nuke with the stuff they had maybe still can).

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

1M HCL isn't all *that* strong

Now, 15M HCL... You could dissolve a cow in that ****

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Holy shitsnacks!

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People have yet to discover how to transmute lead into gold. We have our best alchemists on it.

Bleach and ammonia is always good times.

And Taskiss's ingredients make black powder, which is fun.

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Why be asses?

LK, listen to Coro.

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LK, you might enjoy looking at http://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceBob

I really liked his video on easy lava lamps....

Sam, that's the first experiment I copied down for his book!

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