Great Balls of Fire! Make Your Own Chemistry Lab…
Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
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Mercury Thiocyanide = Gross/Awesome
The expansive ash tendrils created by mercury thiocyanide decomposition are nauseatingly amazing! I’m guessing this reaction could have inspired Tetsuo’s animated affliction. More info, and a perilous recipe on YouTube – Alien rock from Mars [Thanks, Erica!]
Electrochemical sound synthesizer
While not conventionally musical, the Electrochemical Synthesizer’s process for generating sound is unusually interesting – Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The device demonstrates how […]
