When I was in 2nd grade I was told by my best friend, if I placed a rock i a ziploc bag with some mud and buried it, it would turn to gold.
A childhood belief about chemistry
others believed things like this
- Until I was 8 I used to believe that if clothing went into the wash more than once it would turn into gold.— Ben
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I had a friend who thougt the Mount Rushmore national monument was a natural rock formation.Anon