Kids' Chemistry Sets: KABOOM!
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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A surprising number of Nobel Prize winners credit their childhood chemistry set for sparking their interest in science. But most kids just used them to make stuff explode. Compared to the originals, today’s versions are super safe, pale shadows.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. |
| 0:14.0 | Jerry's here too floating around somewhere out there, and that makes this stuff you should know. |
| 0:19.0 | That's right. You thought of this one, and Dave helped us stuff you should know. That's right. |
| 0:26.3 | You thought of this one, and Dave helped us out with the research on chemistry sets. |
| 0:33.3 | I will go ahead and just say that I never had a chemistry set, but you know darn well that somebody in my family did. |
| 0:35.6 | Was it Scott? |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, of course he did. |
| 0:39.3 | He was voted most likely to have a chemistry set in preschool. |
| 0:43.4 | That's awesome. |
| 0:44.9 | Did he do anything magical with it? |
| 0:46.9 | No, I mean, I just remember him having it and it being around the house. |
| 0:50.2 | And, you know, he's just always had a more scientifically mindedminded brain than me and has always been smarter than me from the drop. |
| 0:58.1 | So he was into chemistry sets and I was into, you know, baseball cards. |
| 1:03.6 | Well, I was into baseball cards, too. |
| 1:05.4 | I was going to say, don't feel bad because I didn't have a chemistry set either, but I did have like an electrical set, |
| 1:11.6 | like the electrical version of a chemistry set. |
| 1:13.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | You can do all sorts of stuff. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | And I distinctly remember just hitting it with a hammer |
| 1:19.0 | because I had no idea what was going on with that thing. |
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