two cell cooking of NaCl will get you perfectly good NaOH,
and good enuff HCl, thus eliminating (gasp!) the risks
associated with walking into a store and acquiring same..
If you think you will need conc. H2SO4, however,
here in The Land of the Free, you should know
that there is some noise about removing that from
EZ acquisition.
Now, in truth, THAT is a fairly nasty product to be "OTC"..
Wouldn't mind some fuming nitric though,
just to clean some pickle jars.
I mean Dewars and like that.
who would use pickle jars!??!!
dwarfer