Still going strong
A medieval still was called a bear among the alchemists . Looking att at old paintings of Pieter Brueghel, David Tenier d y, Adrian van Ostade
and Hans Weiditz you realise that the boiling point
of ethanol is far above room temperature and a condenser ought to be enough to destill small amounts.
A modern experimentalist has to try the equipment.

The method in Scouting is learning by doing and in Chemistry the method is similar - experiments and laboratories.
To make a Jamboree sign when I was short of time I applied the red-ox reactions in preparing an electronic circuit card.

When changes in the organisation feels like a burden I refresh my mind with these words from John Read, Prelude to Chemistry:

The Sun-god and Moon-goddess; Yang and Yin; masculine and feminine; sulphur and mercury; positive and negative; proton and electron; truly it may be said of chemical theory that the more it changes the more it is the same thing! The doctrine of the Two Contraries seems to make a peculiar appeal to some deep-seated instinct in the human mind.
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