Frank Erskine wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:19:14 GMT, "Egremont"
wrote:

According to the news, the bombs used in London were constructed from
chemicals obtainable from high street Chemists.

Well, of late I've tried to get stuff like ammonia for cleaning and,
more optomistically, dilute HCL for de-scaling and just got a look
of bemusement from behind the counter. I came to the conclusion that
the old fashioned Chemist doesn't exist any more -they are now
Pharamacies selling drugs, cold cures and the like but not household
chemicals.

Does some Chemists actually still sell old-fashioned cleaning
agents, meths, paraffin, ammonia and the like thesedays?.

I don't have any bother getting isopropyl alcohol, but from a real
pharmacy rather than an in-supermaket one.

I bought a litre of IPA from maplins 3 weeks ago.