How to Do Chemical Tricks / Containing Over One Hundred Highly Amusing and Instructive Tricks With Chemicals
Containing Over One Hundred Highly Amusing and Instructive Tricks With Chemicals.
By A. ANDERSON.
HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED.
New York: FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 24 Union Square.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by
FRANK TOUSEY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
HOW TO DO CHEMICAL TRICKS.
From the remotest ages chemistry has exercised the strongest fascination on the minds of the curious, nor is it a matter of surprise that boys should feel themselves drawn strongly by its mystery and seeming magic. This attraction is undoubtedly caused by what the ancients called the elements, earth, air, fire and water. There is something so weird about the manifestation of air and fire, that it is not difficult to understand how the alchemists believed them to be forces able to be used at the bidding of spirits, who might be conjured up by incantations and spells.
active 1894-1902 A. Anderson
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Chemical Affinity.
Sympathetic Inks.
Alum Baskets.
Easy Crystallizations.
To Make a Piece of Charcoal Appear as Though it were Coated with Gold.
To Give a Piece of Charcoal a Rich Coat of Silver.
Combustion.
Chemistry of The Air.
Amateur Air Pump.
Asphyxia.
Balloon in Vacuum.
Boiling Cold Water.
A Sucking Tube.
Cupping.
The Barometer.
A Novel Barometer.
Compressed Air.
Noiseless Bell.
The Bursting Bladder.
Weight of the Air.
Spoons which will Melt in Hot Water.
Effect of Compression.
To Cover Iron with Copper.
The Elements.
Potassium.
Metallic Colors.
Crystallization of Metals.
Experiment.
Crystallization.
Beauties of Crystallization.
To Crystallize Camphor.
Another Experiment.
A Solid Changed to a Liquid.
Magic of Heat.
Sublimation by Heat.
Heat Passing Through Glass.
Metals Unequally Influenced by Heat.
Spontaneous Combustion.
Inequality of Heat in Fire-Irons.
Expansion of Metal by Heat.
The Alchemist’s Ink.
Chameleon Liquids.
Magic Dyes.
Wine Changed into Water.
The Chemistry of Water.
Two Bitters Make a Sweet.
Visible and Invisible.
To Form a Liquid from Two Solids.
Restoration of Color by Water.
Two Liquids Make a Solid.
Two Solids Make a Liquid.
A Solid Opaque Mass Makes a Transparent Liquid.
Two Cold Liquids Make a Hot One.
To Make Ice.
Curious Change of Colors.
The Protean Light.
To Change the Colors of Flowers.
Changes of the Poppy.
Changes of the Rose.
Marking Indelibly.
Visible Growth.
Colored Flames.
Orange Colored Flame.
Emerald Green Flame.
Instantaneous Flame.
Water of Different Temperatures in the Same Vessel.
Warmth of Different Colors.
Laughing Gas.
Magic Vapor.
Gas from the Union of Metals.
Green Fire.
Combustion of Three Metals.
To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible.
Heat Not to be Estimated by Touch.
Flame Upon Water.
Rose-colored Flame Upon Water.
Currents in Boiling Water.
Hot Water Lighter than Cold.
Expansion of Water by Cold.
The Cup of Tantalus.
The Magic Whirlpool.
Fire Under Water.
To Light Steel.
A Test of Love.
An Egg Pushed Into a Wine Bottle.
A Chemical Fountain.
Weighing Gases.
In Water but not Wet.
Image of a Volcano.
Reciprocal Images.
Imitation of Animal Tints.
Melting a Coin.
Explosive Gas.
Cold from Evaporation.
Self-Dancing Egg.
Flash of Fire in a Room.
Cast Iron Drops.
Explosion without Heat.
Fiery Powder.
Illumination.
Sun and Spirit.
Stars in Water.
Parlor Ballooning.
Marvelous.
Mutability.
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