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Notes

Canisters with lid
  • Photo processors (film canisters)
  • Specimens
  • Mixing
  • Storage
  • Model rockets
 
Carbon rods
  • Old telephone cells or other discharged dry cells
  • D cells
  • Electrolysis
  • Electric plating
Do not cut open nicad or mercury cells.
Chopping boards
  • Budget retail stores
  • For protection of surfaces in construction and dissection activities
Use plastic or cork tiles as an alternative.
Clinometer
  • Scientific suppliers
  • Measuring heights and angles
A clinometer can be made from a protractor and a plumb-bob.
Coins   
  • Sample of metals
 

Compasses

Plotting or charm

Pocket
 (as used in orienteering)

  • Scientific suppliers
  • Sports shops
  • Magnetic fields
Compasses can be hired from some advisory or resource centres.
Conductivity rings
  • Scientific suppliers
  • Conduction of heat
    energy
Conductivity rings could be borrowed from a secondary school.

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