Same guest as 12 Sep 06 - 10:12 PM

We found that if we placed wires from batteries into water and 'captured' the hydrogen in one container and oxygen in another, we could make a fairly respectable explosion. (I suspect it was th O2 that went boom, but I could be wrong. As you may have gathered, I wasn't the brains of the outfit.) Anyway, we'd get the stuff coming off one of the wires into a big jar (like the kind used to buy lots of mayonnaise or mustard) and put a spark plug in there. Then connect wires and get a loooong way back (we were young kids, so that may have been twenty yards) and connect the wires to a battery and the jar would go 'poof'. I can't recall how many drycells we wore out before the novelty paled, but it was a considerable number. And it was fun.