Stephen <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> wrote:
> But they did let us do experiments, we just kept the dangerous ones quiet.

And you had never to visit a new school for some times, when they had to rebuild
your school building? ;)
Okay, no silent explosions.

> No I did not make a bomb with sugar and fertiliser I made my own gunpowder. In
> those days you could buy saltpetre and sulphur in a chemist (separately of
> course) charcoal was easy to make or buy.
> I think that it stood me well in later life when I had to stop explosions and
> fires in the Oil Industry.

But you didn't stop it with selfmade gunpowder, did you? :)
But you are sooo right. It is really a helpful experience. (If I had made that,
I wouldn't have been too careful at my very first experiments. [remembering
myself asking every time "Is that right? Can I make that this way?"])

Regards
         bluetree

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