• Question: how old were you when you first did a scientific experiment

    Asked by anon-335911 on 6 Oct 2022.
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      Dan Day answered on 6 Oct 2022:

      Interesting! I remember doing some in school. And then lots in teaching labs at university as part of the course. The first research experiment I did (to make a novel material) would have been when I was 20 on a placement at an industrial company

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      Francis Batchelor answered on 6 Oct 2022:

      I remember having a chemistry set when I was younger, the sort where you have test tubes that would create different colours and froth up when you mixed them.

      In school I remember vividly the chemistry demonstrations where the teacher burned magnesium. I first did one of my own design when we went to a curling rink to do a physics experiment of throwing the stones down the ice.

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