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This Pretty 'Alchemy' Kit Will Turn Your Kid Into a Budding Materials Scientist

• http://www.wired.com-Margaret Rhodes

The invention of cotton candy would give birth to two things: an untold number of cavities, and the beginning of the fiberglass insulation industry. Eventually, fiberglass would even be used in space suits.

While the creation of a new global industry is an ambitious thing to chase, that's exactly the kind of fortuitous materials discovery that Belgian engineer Laurence Humier hopes her new Alchemist Matter Kit will inspire. It consists of three modular chemistry kits that look like mash-ups of a portable radio and Connect Four, and it's designed to give kids a tangible sense of what chemical interactions can do. One of the things that make it different from the kits that have come before is that each of these comes with a mission. "Usually with a chemistry experiment lab, you make chemical reactions, but you don't how to apply what you have just discovered in your life," Humier says.


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