So, back to the fuming bus - donвЂ™t confuse it with yellow Kissel Brother school buses of rusted-floorboard lore. Seriously, you could see asphalt passing below the bus. Well it stopped at the John Shillito Department Store. Now long gutted and converted into upscale condominiums. There was an amazing toy department that stocked chemistry sets. Holy crap, finally, a hint of your topic. Mad scientists of 1950вЂ™s film fame inspire young mad scientist wannabes such as this writer. A spirited collision of science-fiction reading, household chemicals, periodic table of the elements, sulphur and ignitable materials then sold at the drugstore in Storetown (Greenwell and Delhi area). WasnвЂ™t The Gunpowder God published in Analog around 1964? Storetown is a few miles northwest of Sacred Mountain, in case that datum helps you orient. Premise: Pennsylvania highway patrol officer runs into a MГ¶bius warp of the kind that sweeps you into alternate histories - in this case a gunpowder-free culture. That story piqued my interest in the flash-points of various combustible compounds. Stuff that a normal mad scientist might miss.ДЄny other 315 trivia we donвЂ™t want to know? Piper provided the exact steps for the sulphur, charcoal and sodium nitrate - including the evaporation and precipitation steps. An ancient bottle of boric acid was still in the hall closet after dad died in 2012. It probably hadnвЂ™t been opened since the 60вЂ™s, when it joined my personal chemistry lab and darkroom.

Layers and layers of family life in remnant form. We just want to know about the chemistry experiments there, and weвЂ™re tapping our shoes off. There was a refrigerator with its compressor on top, a gas stove to supplement the denatured alcohol burner, an old dresser to lend mad scientist flavor.

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