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Old 07-04-2004, 22:16   #20
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Re: Osmium tetroxide

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Originally Posted by Graham
The thing is, there are literally thousands of hazardous chemicals that can be bought "over the counter" or can be made up by anyone with a reasonable knowlege of chemistry.

I'm sure it would be possible to make the system "safer" by requiring information to be kept on each sale, but only at the cost of crippling businesses with tons more paperwork.
we used to make an explosive at school - very dangerous, as, when dry, it would go off, if a fly landed on it. We actually did get it to work, once, on a teachers board rubber - very small quantity, but it made a decent noise plus purple fumes
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