YT, do you have every method for making every single compound on this planet?! I was reading ur threads, some showed me how to make copper sulphate, sodium iodide! Did u actually learn this or just found it form experience? Very impressive! Good work!

well not every compound on Earth no, I lack the materials and equipment for that for a start, and there`s still plenty I don`t know.

 

as to How I learned, it`s a good combination of all ways, practical experience, and a good foundation in the basics goes a long way

and I never focus on just one area, I like to keep my learning as broad as possible, the rest is just limits of your own imagination.

nature gives you the materials, it`s up to you how you use them

nice. Its really good that you know all this. Because it means that u don't depend on others for ur experiments. You can make them all at home! Keep the good work up!

well I do depend on others in a sense, it wouldn`t be much fun if I had to make ALL my chems, for instance, I buy the sulphuric acid and the copper to make copper sulphate, It would take a long time to make my own from natural elements and minerals that I find, I buy my glassware too (some I make, sure).

and alot of my basic learning about chem for instance came from books and other people that taught me these foundations (someone had to write the books).

all I do, is take the tools (both material and mental) and make the most of them to the best of my ability

 

being slightly insane helps no end )

have you ever thought about making a small blast furnace furnace? It is something I have wanted to do, smelt my own iron. No doubt I will push the car out of the garage and fill it with science when I get my own place.

yeah, I made one as a kid for melting copper and lead. a crude one isn`t all that hard to do, and living where I do is very industrialised with steel works etc... it was a case of looking up the basics I needed and going to the local factory landfill site and collecting the ceramic bricks and tiles and pots, coke was plentifull and anyone can rig up a small electric fan blowing down a conduit.

it wasn`t a fantastic little furnace, but it worked well enough for basic sand castings, I was making knuckle dusters and Ninja stars to sell at school for cigarette money (no one`s perfect).

as for your garage, DO IT! you won`t regret it

I know I won't, but my girlfriend probably will

My wife used to complain quite frequently also, now she even helps with some stuff

don`t get me wrong, I`m still banned from doing 1 or 2 certain experiments again, but that`s ok, she`s well within her rights due to common safety reasons, and I do see her point.

I think you`ll be just fine, Go for it! and involve her where possible, ya never know, she could end up being the next Marie Currie

Curie mightn't be the best example, what with the death.

well yeah, there is that. but it`s the thought that counts

yeah, and the two nobel prizes can't really hurt

wot about the Ignoble prize?

no offense to Piere and Maire.......Great scientists although