Eosin Y
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Is this suspicious?
Do you think that my ordering of distillation apparatus of Ebay and also my ordering of a lot of strange chemicals will get the police to pay me a
visit? Just thinking that it might be a place to bring this up.
These chemicals:
NaOH - NaOCl - Urea - Trichloroisocyanuric acid - Sodium dichloroisocyanurate - Lantern batteries - Aluminium powder - Ferrocerium - Magnesium -
Potassium perchlorate - Sodium perchlorate - H2SO4 - Potassium nitrate - Antifreeze - Hydrogen peroxide - Calcium oxide
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JJay
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I don't think any of that is suspicious.
A local city council member's aide stopped by yesterday on what was a supposedly routine visit, and his reaction when he saw my bromate generation
apparatus was basically, "Whoa, cool!"
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Orenousername
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aluminum powder + perchlorates = terrorist 
Lol nerds
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Loptr
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Quote: Originally posted by JJay  | I don't think any of that is suspicious.
A local city council member's aide stopped by yesterday on what was a supposedly routine visit, and his reaction when he saw my bromate generation
apparatus was basically, "Whoa, cool!" |
So are you insinuating they were there for more than a pre planned visit and the visit had alterior motives? 
If they know you, then most likely they realize how eccentric our breed can be and already have a bar lowered for our height. I have been going
through a program with the local police department and constantly talk about chemistry, and how I would love to start a program with local schools to
generate interest in chemistry. There is sort of a science club already, but not a hands-on chemistry program to that degree. The police laugh
casually while writing down my name and whispering... Just kidding. They take it pretty well, especially when a discussion of riot control agents came
up, and they were actually able to talk about the various properties of the compounds. There was talk about alpha-chloroacetophenone. 
I have no doubt that if I looked different or came off as a less than academic type that they would take it a lot more seriously, but when I offer
chemistry related advice in conversation that applies to everyday life, I come off more as a nerd or chemistry enthusiast than a threat. This is good
because it tells me there is still hope.
[Edited on 12-5-2016 by Loptr]
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BromicAcid
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Oxidizers + metal powders can be suspicious. My only contact with a three-letter agency revolved around purchasing aluminum powder and potassium
perchlorate. They assumed that I was making 'flash bombs' with the material.
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ganger631
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Definitively suspicious looking, although the chances of them opening up the parcels are quite slim. You may want to order fuel/oxidizer in
separately, not only does it seem suspicious,but quite dangerous.
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JJay
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| Quote: Originally posted by Loptr | | Quote: Originally posted by JJay | I don't think any of that is suspicious.
A local city council member's aide stopped by yesterday on what was a supposedly routine visit, and his reaction when he saw my bromate generation
apparatus was basically, "Whoa, cool!" |
So are you insinuating they were there for more than a pre planned visit and the visit had alterior motives?
If they know you, then most likely they realize how eccentric our breed can be and already have a bar lowered for our height. I have been going
through a program with the local police department and constantly talk about chemistry, and how I would love to start a program with local schools to
generate interest in chemistry. There is sort of a science club already, but not a hands-on chemistry program to that degree. The police laugh
casually while writing down my name and whispering... Just kidding. They take it pretty well, especially when a discussion of riot control agents came
up, and they were actually able to talk about the various properties of the compounds. There was talk about alpha-chloroacetophenone.
I have no doubt that if I looked different or came off as a less than academic type that they would take it a lot more seriously, but when I offer
chemistry related advice in conversation that applies to everyday life, I come off more as a nerd or chemistry enthusiast than a threat. This is good
because it tells me there is still hope.
[Edited on 12-5-2016 by Loptr] |
I don't think it was what I would consider a routine visit (it's not even his district), but I'm not really sure what his motives were... probably
heard about my lab and just wanted to see what was going on....
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