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The Hamilton Morris Podcast is a series focused on the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of psychoactive substances
…reptile lamp and a garage. Yeah, tell me about that. I mean, I've been sort of... I mean, I remember trying to talk to Philip Eaton when I was at UChicago and he wouldn't talk to me, but I was so impressed by the original Cubane synthesis because it's…
…like something that... It's really just incredibly beautiful. And at the same time, the product is so simple. I mean, Philip Eaton was convinced that... Eventually, people would figure out a way to make a tetramerization of acetylene to make cubane because…
…you familiar with that? No. It was a popular insecticide in the US in, I guess, the 1950s. Actually, it was what inspired Philip Eaton to make cubane. It's like... Right. I'm just looking at it now. That's a whole lot of chlorine atoms. Yeah. And you…
…and you think, wow, anyone that works in a keypone factory is definitely going to die. And I think many people did die. But Philip Eaton worked with that stuff and... did not die so there is i guess there's a lot of people that get hurt and then…