chemistry set

noun

: a set of equipment that a child can use to learn about chemistry by doing simple experiments

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This beetle is a living chemistry set with armored plumbing and perfect timing. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025 Or having the chemistry set explode sometime after the seventh-inning stretch. — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024 The chemistry set exists to strip out methane from the coal feedstock along with a range of byproducts that can be sold commercially or disposed of. — David Wagman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2017 His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer and gave him a Kodak photo-chemistry set for his sixth birthday. — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025 For Christmas before his 7th birthday, Heman was given a chemistry set that came with a sample of sodium hydroxide. — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024 Over the last few seasons, after the FBI took to sticking her in cars but ignoring her soulful attempts at a personal connection, her loyalties became convoluted, a toy chemistry set potion of fear, love, denial and good-girl obedience. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023

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