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Science Isn't Dangerous Enough at School

There is, i think, a genuine argument that science isn't dangerous enough at school. It's trueyou can laugh, but the thing that makes chemists want to be chemists is that at school they sort of grown up blow something up,. And now everything's so health and safety - you're not allowed to even look at a thermometer without wearing goggles and a welder's mask. Whereas i remember, our chemistry teacher took us out in a thermite reaction, ar and and another reaction, where the point was that the energy an food comes from er the hydrocarbon chains. But it smelt of candy floss after the experimet ws done, as we wen

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