For some reason, when I was a little kid I was convinced that if you hooked two nine volt batteries to each other, they'd explode violently and destroy anything within about 100 feet.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that serial killers violently ate their cereal...yeah..Anon
- My dad told me that the reason feet were stinky was because they grew out of your butt.— Veronika
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I thought tornados were monsters,and that they called out the national guard to destroy it.— Ben J.Grimm
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler