I think it was 10th grade, boy they gave us a lot of homework
There was one time when I put a mold filled with liquid water in a cold container and made solid water.
that sounds super dangerous!
For me it has been etching circuit boards and specifically making my own liquid tinning solution at one point. I mostly do hydrochloric acid/hydrogen peroxide on larger stuff and ferric chloride on smaller prototypes.
Made soap out of lye and a mix of fats and oils.
Stripped a cast iron pan using electrolysis, although that might be more physics than chemistry. I had to add Sodium Carbonate so that’s pretty sciencey!
Chemistry is just messy physics.
Biology is just messy chemistry.
Physics is just messy math.
Your list is in a messy order.
Philosophy is just messy biology.
Colouring hair, baking soda+vinegar (to clean and showoff), crude fuel cell, cleaning a washing machine with borax and something (some soda?)
um, Ive nitrated various organic compounds at home as a teenager
Extraction and purification of surface residue for triple quadrupole analysis looking for pesticides, or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry looking for arsenic, but that’s practically physics by that level.
I helped create life and It was orgasmic!
Orgasmic chemistry!
baking bread
This one is underrated. That shit is like college-level difficult
Extracted lsa from morning glory seeds in order to make my own knock-off lsd
Yeah, polar/non-polar extractions are about as far as my home chemistry got. But the LSA was good.
Amen, brother.
Making grain beetles horny for my undergrad organic chemistry degree.
Didn’t get to see a train beetle rub one out. Thankfully.
Do they make Kleenex that small?
Please elaborate
My final year organic chemistry dissertation to make grain beetle pheromone. Very large ring molecule with until then very low yields.
Cooking & baking
I don’t do that much of that but I hear my guts can do some amazing chemistry on the food all on their own, not to mention the cells themselves.
I tried a few simple AB extractions long ago in a previous life.
Acid assisted microwave digestion
Pop Rocks, mouth, coca cola.