Put your hands up and back away from the chemistry set Johnny
According to Wired, the home chemist is under siege, from the U.S. Government! It seems that the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) feels that home chemists and the chemicals they purchase could be a threat to safety and national security. It’s not the meth labs they are worried about, but people making explosives, etc.
The Wired article talks about United Nuclear, where you can buy all manner of fun science stuff from ultra strong magnets to supplies to make firery volcanoes. All was well until the police showed up to raid them. They are now fighting the good fight to allow home chemists and inventors supplied.
Oh and if you’d like to make an exploding volcano … Wired gives you that info too!
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