tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623912.post2292334407696125876..comments2007-10-17T00:08:53.507-04:00Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05349466286549537039[email protected]Blogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623912.post-47633365873922665502007-10-17T00:08:00.000-04:002007-10-17T00:08:00.000-04:00Hey, sure beats anything I did in high school. Although I did build a pretty cool roller coaster in physics class.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05349466286549537039[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623912.post-64792724177244682792007-10-15T18:19:00.000-04:002007-10-15T18:19:00.000-04:00This really reminds me my science project that I did in the first grade of high school. I wanted to do something related to chemistry and I had access to spectrophotometer and I knew there was this relatively sensitive colorimetric test for lead (pink dithizone complex extraction, to CCl4) so I set out to see if there was increased lead content in fruit picked roadside. (This was 20 years ago, so most cars used leaded gas). Sure enough, if when I looked hard I could find somewhat increased lead content in apples grown on the roadside. <BR/><BR/>This work did not prove anything we did not know before but if I wanted I could have made big deal out of the my "findings."<BR/><BR/>In reality, it was a masturbation-like activity, done for me to feel important about my "research".milkshakehttp://orgprepdaily.wordpress.com[email protected]