proudmick - 5-4-2012 at 22:12
Looking on Craigslist and ran across this:CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT KIT, CHEM C3000 - $20
Date: 2012-04-04, 12:47PM MDT
THAMES & KOSMOS CHEMISTRY KIT, CHEM C3000. STILL IN ORIGINAL BOX THAT HAS BEEN OPENED, BUT THE THREE TRAYS ARE STILL IN SHRINK WRAP FROM FACTORY.
FOR 12 YEARS OR OLDER, 112 COMPONENTS. EACH TRAY HAS NUMEROUS LABELED TUBES AND ACCESSORIES, BOTTLES, FUNNELS, SAFETY GLASSES, BRUSHES, FILTER
PAPERS,CYLINDERS SYRINGES AND MUCH MORE....
I'm wondering what the diff is tween the 2011 edt and this one??
Thanks all!
Mick....
Dr.Bob - 6-4-2012 at 04:57
No idea what the difference is, but I would buy it in a heartbeat for $20.
DJF90 - 6-4-2012 at 05:03
Chances are it contains REAL chemicals, and useful for REAL experiments. Educational chemistry sets these days are total bollocks. I remember the ones
I got back in '98. Had some neat compounds in there; sodium bisulfate, copper sulfate, cobalt chloride, zinc, magnesium, sodium carbonate, calcium
hydroxide, methyl orange, litmus blue, potassium permanganate, Iron (II) sulfate, citric acid etc etc (my memory is failing...). Nowadays you're lucky
to get some alum and sodium chloride, for crystal growing purposes :/
proudmick - 7-4-2012 at 03:25
I went down there not expecting much for my $20 and was pleasantly surprised..It was the 2007 edition (sans H2O2/Denatured alc/4% NAOH/7% HCL and
Silver Nitrate solution for *ahem* legal/shelf life reasons lmao) and everything was there..And good call DJF it also had 12g x2 of Hexamine,20g
KMnO4,16g KI,20g KBr etc,etc..I'm thinking the chems alone were worth it..Says the 2011 edt runs a little over $200 w/o many chems in the older
sets..Makes me wonder who we Yanks will have to "outsource" all of our ChemicalMedical/Agro R&D to when little Johnny/Joanie can't even spell
Chemistry let alone practice it due to our WOD/post 9-11 "Patriot" type actions....I myself foresee no repercussions in our curiosity smothering
restrictions do you all??:
We the Sheeple think Chemistry is BAAAAAD..
DJF90 - 7-4-2012 at 05:10
Sounds like you got a good deal, apart from being shafted out the peroxide, silver, acid and base, but thats life I spose. Glad I could be of
assistance 