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Does uni count? I synthesised aspirin.
Does biochemistry count? I exponentially copied very specifically selected short fragments of DNA. From 1 to up to 1,099,511,627,776 copies in just 2 hours. I've also very specifically cut and glued together DNA strands.
And at home, I just extracted juice from red cabbage and played with changing its colour by adding lemon juice or baking soda.
Crack cocaine
Making grain beetles horny for my undergrad organic chemistry degree.
Didn't get to see a train beetle rub one out. Thankfully.
Do they make Kleenex that small?
Please elaborate
My final year organic chemistry dissertation to make grain beetle pheromone. Very large ring molecule with until then very low yields.
Sounds more like biology.
I tried a few simple AB extractions long ago in a previous life.
Colouring hair, baking soda+vinegar (to clean and showoff), crude fuel cell, cleaning a washing machine with borax and something (some soda?)
Speedballing
um, Ive nitrated various organic compounds at home as a teenager
My HS chem teacher was a troll; he assigns my group Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions. Which meant dealing with 1999 internet trying to find resources on it. OTOH, it did make for a very pretty lab demo.