- How to Do Chemical Tricks
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A. T. Anderson
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While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and relevant for a person interested in basic chemistry or physics tricks, and the devices built in the book can be easily replicated with more modern materials. The book is split up into many little experiments, tricks, with an explanation on how it works, what's happening, and how to reproduce the effects at home.
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- Chapters
- How to do Chemical Tricks
- Chemical Affinity, Sympathetic Inks
- Alum Baskets, Easy Crystallizations
- Charcoal Coated with Gold, Silver
- Combustion
- Chemistry of the Air
- Amateur Air Pump, Asphyxia, Balloon in a 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
- Crystallization, Beauties of Crystallization
- To Crystallize Camphor
- A Solid Change 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, Expasion 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 Lights, To Change the Colors of Flowers, Changes of the Poppy, Changes of the Rose
- Marking Indelibly
- Visible Growth
- Colored Flames
- 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 Waster
- Parlor Ballooning
- Marvelous
- Mutability, the end
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