Usenet Nutter
wibbled on Sunday 03 January 2010 11:29

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:35 +0000, Tim W wrote:

On an aside, can you still get carbon tetrachloride? Wasn't on that site
posted a few posts back, but chloroform was...

Carbon Tet was the main constituent of stuff for taking stains out of
clothes was it not? no doubt been banned long tme ago.

A lot of stuff that will raise eyebrows[1] in the local chemist shop is
actually freely and legally available on the internet.

eg http://www.gardencentre.co.uk/produc...=gbase&ad=7865
(Have to sign for that in the chemist's)

Mag ribbon http://www.lpchemicals.com/product.php?Id=317
(always on ebay)

etc...

Once I even found a place that claimed to sell metallic sodium - but it was
in whole bars and cost a fortune.

Also, be aware that is an online chemical supplier seems to have a strong
bias towards selling highly reactive substances and none of the "boring"
chemicals, it's probably a sting website. Even if it's not (perhaps it's a
pyro supplies place) then be sure various agents of the state will probably
be either keeping an eye on it or are liable to go and legally grab a
customer/orders list from time to time. So no buying 50kg of bomb making
chemicals.

--
Tim Watts

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