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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chemistry set
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I also loved making gadgets out of wood, and my heart's desire was a chemistry set.
▪ I packed away the chemistry set and stuck it on the shelf behind the pickled beets.
▪ In several placed Donald Duck makes exciting discoveries by playing with a chemistry set.
▪ It is this operation that George Ewart, general manager for Chemical Products, describes as a giant chemistry set.
▪ One early Christmas they got me a small chemistry set.
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Chemistry set

A chemistry set is an educational toy allowing the user (typically a teenager) to perform simple chemistry experiments.

Chemistry set (disambiguation)

A chemistry set is an educational toy enabling simple chemistry experiments.

Chemistry set may also refer to:

  • The Chemistry Set (American band), an indie pop band formed in 2002 from Dallas, Texas
  • The Chemistry Set (UK band), a London psych-pop band

Usage examples of "chemistry set".

We had it all planned to the last detail-fixed lines down the shaft, cozy suits, even the little chemistry set.

He placed a watch glass on a dished firebrick and carefully measured out a small amount of the purple crystals from the up-time 'chemistry set.

God, yes, he'd make his own food, there were plenty of chemicals around, not to mention his ten-year-old son's chemistry set and all those bottles of stuff he'd brought when he'd dabbled in home-plastic-do-it-yourself jobs.

Here you sit in your little holes running your little experiments, making things like kids with a chemistry set in a basement, while the whole time an entire world sits outside your door.

The two wooden benches that ran down the center of the lab were supporting a fair amount of glassware, resembling a sophisticated high-school chemistry set.

When I refuse to talk he digs into my kaleidoscopic brain with his chemistry set.

One Christmas you used up all the chemicals in your first chemistry set and then stole mine.