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Re: Home science under attack
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:08:05 -0400
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From: Armando Stettner <aps () ieee org> Date: August 12, 2008 11:27:29 PM EDT To: dave () farber netCc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>, "Robert Thompson <thompson () ttgnet com> phillip torrone" <pt () oreilly com >Subject: Re: [IP] Home science under attack Reply-To: Armando Stettner <aps () ieee org>I would not have believed it but many of the things I owned as a kid are 'regulated' (at least) in Texas. The statue "requires anyone who sells, transfers, furnishes, or purchases certain precursor chemicals or certain laboratory apparatus to be regulated by DPS."I had several of these things.... armando"Chemical laboratory apparatus" means any item of equipment designed, made, or adapted to manufacture a controlled substance or a controlled substance analogue, including:(A) a condenser (B) a distilling apparatus (C) a vacuum drier (D) a three-neck or distilling flask (E) a tableting machine (F) an encapsulating machine (G) a filter, Buchner, or separatory funnel (H) an Erlenmeyer, two-neck, or single-neck flask (I) a round-bottom, Florence, thermometer, or filtering flask (J) a Soxhlet extractor (K) a transformer (L) a flask heater (M) a heating mantel or (N) an adaptor tube http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/criminal_law_enforcement/narcotics/narcprecursor.htm
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