ahh a kids right of passage
surviving with ALL there fingers
Chlorine + Brake Fluid
Sodium in water
Sparkers crushed up + Soda Bulbs
they are fun
Ammonium Nitrate + Diesel.
I had to throw this in. Years ago, our HS chemistry teacher was demonstrating the extreme exothermic (violent heat-producing) reaction of sodium in water. He carefully removed the nearly pure metalic sodium from the kerosene in which it was stored, shaved a few small bits off the chunk, and dumped them into a beaker with about 2 liters of water where the reaction made them skitter around a bit before being consumed. Cool.
Then, as the presentation progressed, and the teacher started asking questions, he picked the sodium up with the tongs, and went to put it back into the kerosene. Distracted, he put it into the water - the whole chunk. His reaction? "Get the hell out of here!"
The room was a combined classroom and chem lab with slate top counters in the lab, etc. A very large room. He was at one end. They found glass embedded at the far end of the room. Plus a large scorch mark on the ceiling directly over where the beaker had been.
Fun times indeed, and very educational.
