Letting kids play with chemicals to create new molecules can be a very bad idea. I can testify to that. The teacher assigned us a certain variety of substances that we could use to synthetically create new molecules. Basically we just threw all sorts of chemicals together without recording what was in the mix, how much of the chemiclas was in the mix, nor much of anything else that should be been recorded that were not. So we put our mountain of goo in a cupboard and let it sit there over the weekend. There was a spider's nest directly above the canister of goo and it released fumes for over 48 hours. When we came back to the classroom over the weekend we found something out of the horror films. The spiders were all demented. Some had very very large legs, other looking disgusting attributes of all sorts. We thought for the benefit of the spider's reproductive dangers that we'd just kill them all, which is what we did. But this just shows how you can use common chemicals mixed together to create something horrifying. So teachers, pay more attention to your students and don't let them play with chemicals without oversight... you could have your students making mutagens and grotesque mutant creatures.

So what's the purpose of this post? It is proof that you can do great damage to ecosystems from common materials, and how messing with chemistry is no joke, and not just some fun game.

With thoughts or horror,
-warmfuzzy

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