[sdiy] RE: how it all started

[Rainer Buchty]

> My other big hobby at the time was chemistry (Kosmos Chemie 2000), which
> soon led into pyrotechnics and related fields. I still remember the day
> when my parent's house was filled with tear gas - the bromine acetone
> experiment was more effective than I had expected.

Now this sounds familiar... Although in my case it was racemic tartaric
acid with a tad of potassiumhexacyanoferrat(II), sulfur, and iron --
commonly known as stink bomb.

Much to the joy(?) of my parents I left this mixture in a corked test
tube and forgot about it, until 3 days later...

Rainer