NaOH is the biggest red flag. I would do everything possible, including changing your tek, to not order this. As for the other things, you'll probably be OK. AFAIK, no one has ever gotten in trouble for ordering mimosa, and pH strips & zinc are perfectly innocuous on their own.
SWIM has paranoid fantasies in which future government agencies data-mine everyone's credit card activity, and come up with a number that reflects the probability that they are engaging in something verboten; and if this number is higher than a certain threshold value, then they can get a search warrant. But until that day I think our foaf's will be alright.
Nevertheless SWIY might want to look into an anonymous prepaid credit card if he/she is still nervous.
benzyme wrote:
i'm tellin ya, one day i'll interface a mass spec and uv-vis spectrophotometer to a modular synthesizer