Safe Chemistry Class

             If anybody observed me a couple of weeks ago in front of

    a computer screen at main branch of Cranston Public Library, they

    might have concluded that I was  thrilled by violent and colorful

    explosions.  Did I miss my true vocation ?

        Actually I was fascinated by the computer program, " Chemistry

    Set. "   All the chemistry you never learned in high school or

    college made more playful and a lot safer.

           A lot of time is wasted in school chemistry labs just

    making a mess, fearing the Big Bang right there, and your mind

    freezing with the fear of  appearing an inept dummkopf.

         The Chemistry Set accelerates the learning process. For

    example , the student can instantly view in rotating three

    dimensions any molecule being discussed. In a click one gets

    important data - boiling point, freezing point, solubility,

    preparation and uses, etc - on hundreds of elements and

    compounds.

         In a click one gets summary biographys of important

    chemists  like Lavoisier and Cavendish .

           I just wish there were many more everyday experiments

    on film. Girls who are shy about making a mess of themselves

    now have no excuse not to learn a little basic chemistry.

          Will the alarm go off again as the strange man with the

    mysterious black bag exits the library ?