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Posted by Phineas T Puddleduck on 07/26/06 23:27
In article <4iqbvfF4vbllU1@individual.net>, Default User
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
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>
> > Its not just a US problem. In the UK the same holds. I remember (in
> > the 70's) having chemistry sets with magnesium, and crystal growing
> > kits.
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> The one I had stocked sulphur, and I could buy saltpeter at the drug
> store.
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> I think you can see where this is going.
>
>
You could do what we did, and just bought fireworks...
The local toy store by me used to sell balsa kits for making gliders.
Of course, if you replaced the BODY of the glider with a rocket....
;-)
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