
If you're a science teacher, an amateur scientist, or a professional who likes to take his work home with him, you'll lust after this CD-ROM. The updated (v3.0) and expanded disk contains the "legacy of a century," the complete collection of The Amateur Scientist columns from Scientific American magazine, featuring Albert G. Ingalls, C.L. Strong, Jearl Walker, Forrest Mims, Shawn Carlson and others. It includes over 1,000 classic projects in various disciplines for hobbyists, students and science fair contestants, more than 1,000 pages of helpful techniques that never appeared in the magazine, plus Internet links to valuable scientific sites. Minimum requirements: Mac OS, Windows, Linux or UNIX. 64MB RAM minimum. Runs with any browser. An incredible resource. An Absolutely-Must-Have!
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92047 AMATEUR SCIENTIST CD 3.0 |
Gadgeteers, get out your charge card. This is an instrument you absolutely have to own. It reaches down below sofa cushions, inside piggy banks, into fish tanks, and past a gallbladder. Not simultaneously, of course. The slim stainless steel alligator forceps is 11" long OA, with a 2-1/2" angled handle and an 8-1/2" reach. It has small 5/8" long serrated jaws, delicate but tight, at the very tip! Better buy an extra. We guarantee people are going to "borrow" these if they see them.
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92452 ALLIGATOR FORCEPS |
For those little surgical jobs: little forceps. Try these 3-1/2" long stainless steel straight forceps with 3/4" long striated jaws. Lock positions: "Tight" and "Yikes!"
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92457 SMALL FORCEPS |
We could have offered you 50 feet of 3/32" dia ball chain and a handful of connectors, but we're saving you the trouble of creating individual key chains. You'll get (100) 6-1/4" lengths, each with (1) connector.
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35495 BALL CHAINS |
This deluxe ABS storage case is called a Store-It-ALL, and it does. But it could be called a Carry-It-ALL, for the sturdy handle and locking clasp, or it could be called a See-It-ALL, for its translucent lid. Or a Fits-It-ALL, for the removable dividers that let you configure it with any number of compartments from 5 to 26. But the 12" x 18" x 3" OA case should really be called ALL-I-Ever-Needed- To-Get-Organized!
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92454 STORE-IT-ALL BOX |
A bare bulb -- rubber, that is -- and a translucent-plastic 2mL barrel combine to make a 2ml dropper. The dropper is marked in .25ml increments. Inexpensive enough that you can toss it after you use it.
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35912 2ML DROPPER |
Nothing to it with William Gurstelle's "Backyard Ballistics," a soft-cover, 169pp compendium by an engineer on constructing rockets, cannons (carbide and spud), flingers, tennis ball mortars, balloons, fire kites, and other intriguing devices, all with common household materials. The detailed text includes parts lists, illustrated instructions, photos and quite sensible and necessary safety precautions. From Chicago Review Press.
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92823 BACKYARD BALLISTICS |
This set of (6) tweezers is as useful as it looks daunting. The (6) stainless steel tweezers vary in size from 4-1/2" up to 7". Two of the tweezers have serated tips one is inverse, one has a slide latch and the others are straight flat tip. The set comes in a clear front plastic carrying case. Good for model cars, planes or hard to reach splinters.
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88366 TWEEZERS |
Best name we could think of, OK? Attach this white HDPE spray bottle to a garden hose and it spews the contents plus water on, well, whatever you're spraying stuff on. A new, unused bottle that was made for Armor-All, it'll do the same thing with car wash detergent, fertilizer, or any other liquid. It's sized for a standard 1" hose fitting. The top has a 3-way, on/off/water-only control plus a little snap-in shim to direct the spray downward (although this is easily removed). Shaped like a plastic motor oil bottle, it holds approx 36 oz and measures 11-1/2" tall x 4-5/8" wide x 2" deep.
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36730 SPRAY BOTTLE |
They call it the "Krazy Cutter" and it's going to make your life a whole bunch easier. It's a little 2-3/8" long x 3/16" thick teardrop-shaped paper slicer with a teensy rust- and dullness-proof ceramic blade that magically cuts through paper and plastic. Perfect for clipping newsprint, cutting wrapping paper, and opening deviously sealed packaging, including the heavy stuff if you press a bit. Even CD cases. The krazy part? Won't cut your fingers or anything else. You could run it right over your hand, press down and everything, and nothing. Really. We tried it on some expendable employees. You know what this means? You can take it on airplanes, which further means that when you get to the coast you'll actually be able to open all the packages full of the stuff you sent ahead.
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92855 KRAZY CUTTER CERAMIC BLADE CUTTING TOOL |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Actually, it's a set of (36) different little polished gemstones and minerals from around the world, all identical sizes (1/2" x 3/8" x 1/8" thick), mounted and identified by name and origin on an 8" x 10" card. Super nice at a super price, for teachers, designers or jewelry makers. The set includes amazonite, amethyst, aventurine, black obsidian, blue lace agate, buttermilk jasper, carnelian, Dalmatian dacite, dumortierite, fancy jasper, fluorite, gold stone, hematite, howlite, jadeite, lapis, leopard skin jasper, mahogany,obsidian, moss agate, nephrite, Picasso jasper, orange calcite, picture jasper, rainbow jasper, rose quartz, rhodonite, rock crystal, rhyolite, red jasper, snowflake obsidian, sodalite, serpentine, tiger eye stone, turquoise and unakite.
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92883 SAMPLE GEMSTONE |
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