Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-11-12
Books mentioned on Kids' Chemistry Sets: KABOOM!
A surprising number of Nobel Prize winners credit their childhood chemistry set for sparking their interest in science. But most kids just used them to make stuff explode.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Prospecting for uranium
Discussed“Well, the ones that came with uranium, uh, they had, you know, booklets; one was called Prospecting for Uranium! Uh, that, that taught you how to mine a radioactive ore!”
Where to get it
