has anyone considered that maybe chemistry is so hard because it's basically illegal to be interested in it without somehow acquiring the necessary licensing to have that interest BEFORE ever practicing it?
anyway
Time was, you could set up all manner of elaborate glassware in your basement and cook up some sort of serum or elixir that held promise to change the world...or turn you into an Edwardian cautionary tale
I was 🤯 over what we were allowed to play with in high school chemistry class
one time the token hyperactive boy in class scorched the ceiling tiles because he went off script with that day's lab work: mixed up random chemicals, put them on the Bunsen burner, 💥💨
teacher got big mad