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How to Do Chemical Tricks

A. T. Anderson

While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and relevant for a person interested in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.(summary by Kyle Van DeGlast)

Genre(s): Chemistry

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	How to do Chemical Tricks	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:04:15
Play 01	Chemical Affinity, Sympathetic Inks	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:05:52
Play 02	Alum Baskets, Easy Crystallizations	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:27
Play 03	Charcoal Coated with Gold, Silver	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:02:10
Play 04	Combustion	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:02:19
Play 05	Chemistry of the Air	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:07:52
Play 06	Amateur Air Pump, Asphyxia, Balloon in a Vacuum, Boiling Cold Water, A Sucking Tube, Cupping	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:08:18
Play 07	The Barometer, A Novel Barometer	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:04:37
Play 08	Compressed Air	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:57
Play 09	Noiseless Bell, The Bursting Bladder, Weight of the Air	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:46
Play 10	Spoons Which Will Melt in Hot Water	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:31
Play 11	Effect of Compression	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:35
Play 12	To Cover Iron with Copper	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:39
Play 13	The Elements	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:40
Play 14	Potassium, Metallic Colors	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:04:05
Play 15	Crystallization of Metals	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:33
Play 16	Crystallization, Beauties of Crystallization	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:04:30
Play 17	To Crystallize Camphor	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:02
Play 18	A Solid Change to a Liquid	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:09
Play 19	Magic of Heat, Sublimation by Heat, Heat Passing Through Glass, Metals Unequally Influenced by Heat	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:03:41
Play 20	Spontaneous Combustion, Inequality of Heat in Fire-Irons, Expasion of Metal by Heat	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:25
Play 21	The Alchemist's Ink, Chameleon Liquids, Magic Dyes, Wine Changed into Water	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:02:27
Play 22	The Chemistry of Water	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:03:01
Play 23	Two Bitters Make a Sweet	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:26
Play 24	Visible and Invisible	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:32
Play 25	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	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:03:05
Play 26	To Make Ice	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:32
Play 27	Curious Change of Colors, The Protean Lights, To Change the Colors of Flowers, Changes of the Poppy, Changes of the Rose	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:02:32
Play 28	Marking Indelibly	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:32
Play 29	Visible Growth	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:09
Play 30	Colored Flames	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:55
Play 31	Water of Different Temperatures in the Same Vessel	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:41
Play 32	Warmth of Different Colors	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:40
Play 33	Laughing Gas	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:26
Play 34	Magic Vapor, Gas from the Union of Metals	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:15
Play 35	Green Fire, Combustion of Three Metals	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:03
Play 36	To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:38
Play 37	Heat Not to be Estimated by Touch	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:02
Play 38	Flame Upon Water, Rose-colored Flame Upon Water	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:44
Play 39	Currents in Boiling Water, Hot Water Lighter than Cold, Expansion of Water by Cold	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:42
Play 40	The Cup of Tantalus	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:05
Play 41	The Magic Whirlpool	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:03:28
Play 42	Fire Under Water	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:32
Play 43	To Light Steel	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:28
Play 44	A Test of Love	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:36
Play 45	An Egg Pushed Into a Wine Bottle	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:02
Play 46	A Chemical Fountain	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:55
Play 47	Weighing Gases	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:45
Play 48	In Water but not Wet	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:36
Play 49	Image of a Volcano	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:41
Play 50	Reciprocal Images	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:14
Play 51	Imitation of Animal Tints	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:15
Play 52	Melting a Coin	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:33
Play 53	Explosive Gas	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:47
Play 54	Cold from Evaporation	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:24
Play 55	Self-Dancing Egg	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:38
Play 56	Flash of Fire in a Room	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:35
Play 57	Cast Iron Drops	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:35
Play 58	Explosion without Heat, Fiery Powder	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:33
Play 59	Illumination	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:46
Play 60	Sun and Spirit	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:29
Play 61	Stars in Waster	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:48
Play 62	Parlor Ballooning	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:54
Play 63	Marvelous	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:00:37
Play 64	Mutability, the end	Kyle Van DeGlast	00:01:10

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