Colouring hair, baking soda+vinegar (to clean and showoff), crude fuel cell, cleaning a washing machine with borax and something (some soda?)
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I tried a few simple AB extractions long ago in a previous life.
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.
Sounds more like biology.
Crack cocaine
Baking
um, Ive nitrated various organic compounds at home as a teenager
My HS chem teacher was a troll; he assigns my group Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions. Which meant dealing with 1999 internet trying to find resources on it. OTOH, it did make for a very pretty lab demo.
Speedballing