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World's Most Exciting Chemistry Movies

Posted by michael on from the blinded-me-with-science dept.

Michael Buckbee writes: "After Dan's page got too slashdotted to view, I ran a quick search on Google for more more fun Ferroliquid sites and stumbled into a collection of movies that I wish had been taken in my chemistry classes. Almost all of the experiment descriptions lean heavily on the phrase "EXTREME DANGER" and many contain other fun words like: "Explosion", "Toxic", "Detonation", and "Diazotization"."

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  1. QT is Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have Quicktime installed on all 6 of my machines and I didn't pay a dime. Quicktime is FREE SOFTWARE.

  2. More Quicktime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People bend over so readily to proprietary stuff that by the time it becomes mandetory by law, most people won't even notice.

    No way am I gonna "Register" with Apple to view
    web content. They can kiss my ass.

  3. Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My vote goes to Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet. It stars Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Gordon. (remember Harold and Maude?) Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet is about the quest for a cure for syphillis. Very weird movie for 1940, and very watchable. It gives some insight into the sexual morals of old Europe. And man oh man did they have some weird chemicals for "curing" syphillis. There really was no cure until Erlich came up with his "magic bullet". This movie is a must see for all geeks.