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How to Do Chemical Tricks

Public domain audiobook

How to Do Chemical Tricks

by A. T. Anderson

English· 01:54:11· 65 chapters
While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and relevant for a person interested in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)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    How to do Chemical Tricks

    04:15
  2. Chapter 2

    Chemical Affinity, Sympathetic Inks

    05:52
  3. Chapter 3

    Alum Baskets, Easy Crystallizations

    01:27
  4. Chapter 4

    Charcoal Coated with Gold, Silver

    02:10
  5. Chapter 5

    Combustion

    02:19
  6. Chapter 6

    Chemistry of the Air

    07:52
  7. Chapter 7

    Amateur Air Pump, Asphyxia, Balloon in a Vacuum, Boiling Cold Water, A Sucking Tube, Cupping

    08:18
  8. Chapter 8

    The Barometer, A Novel Barometer

    04:37
  9. Chapter 9

    Compressed Air

    01:57
  10. Chapter 10

    Noiseless Bell, The Bursting Bladder, Weight of the Air

    01:46
  11. Chapter 11

    Spoons Which Will Melt in Hot Water

    00:31
  12. Chapter 12

    Effect of Compression

    00:35
  13. Chapter 13

    To Cover Iron with Copper

    00:39
  14. Chapter 14

    The Elements

    01:40
  15. Chapter 15

    Potassium, Metallic Colors

    04:05
  16. Chapter 16

    Crystallization of Metals

    01:33
  17. Chapter 17

    Crystallization, Beauties of Crystallization

    04:30
  18. Chapter 18

    To Crystallize Camphor

    01:02
  19. Chapter 19

    A Solid Change to a Liquid

    01:09
  20. Chapter 20

    Magic of Heat, Sublimation by Heat, Heat Passing Through Glass, Metals Unequally Influenced by Heat

    03:41
  21. Chapter 21

    Spontaneous Combustion, Inequality of Heat in Fire-Irons, Expasion of Metal by Heat

    01:25
  22. Chapter 22

    The Alchemist's Ink, Chameleon Liquids, Magic Dyes, Wine Changed into Water

    02:27
  23. Chapter 23

    The Chemistry of Water

    03:01
  24. Chapter 24

    Two Bitters Make a Sweet

    00:26
  25. Chapter 25

    Visible and Invisible

    00:32
  26. Chapter 26

    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

    03:05
  27. Chapter 27

    To Make Ice

    01:32
  28. Chapter 28

    Curious Change of Colors, The Protean Lights, To Change the Colors of Flowers, Changes of the Poppy, Changes of the Rose

    02:32
  29. Chapter 29

    Marking Indelibly

    00:32
  30. Chapter 30

    Visible Growth

    01:09
  31. Chapter 31

    Colored Flames

    01:55
  32. Chapter 32

    Water of Different Temperatures in the Same Vessel

    00:41
  33. Chapter 33

    Warmth of Different Colors

    00:40
  34. Chapter 34

    Laughing Gas

    01:26
  35. Chapter 35

    Magic Vapor, Gas from the Union of Metals

    01:15
  36. Chapter 36

    Green Fire, Combustion of Three Metals

    01:03
  37. Chapter 37

    To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible

    00:38
  38. Chapter 38

    Heat Not to be Estimated by Touch

    01:02
  39. Chapter 39

    Flame Upon Water, Rose-colored Flame Upon Water

    00:44
  40. Chapter 40

    Currents in Boiling Water, Hot Water Lighter than Cold, Expansion of Water by Cold

    01:42
  41. Chapter 41

    The Cup of Tantalus

    01:05
  42. Chapter 42

    The Magic Whirlpool

    03:28
  43. Chapter 43

    Fire Under Water

    00:32
  44. Chapter 44

    To Light Steel

    00:28
  45. Chapter 45

    A Test of Love

    00:36
  46. Chapter 46

    An Egg Pushed Into a Wine Bottle

    01:02
  47. Chapter 47

    A Chemical Fountain

    01:55
  48. Chapter 48

    Weighing Gases

    01:45
  49. Chapter 49

    In Water but not Wet

    00:36
  50. Chapter 50

    Image of a Volcano

    00:41
  51. Chapter 51

    Reciprocal Images

    01:14
  52. Chapter 52

    Imitation of Animal Tints

    01:15
  53. Chapter 53

    Melting a Coin

    00:33
  54. Chapter 54

    Explosive Gas

    00:47
  55. Chapter 55

    Cold from Evaporation

    00:24
  56. Chapter 56

    Self-Dancing Egg

    00:38
  57. Chapter 57

    Flash of Fire in a Room

    00:35
  58. Chapter 58

    Cast Iron Drops

    00:35
  59. Chapter 59

    Explosion without Heat, Fiery Powder

    01:33
  60. Chapter 60

    Illumination

    01:46
  61. Chapter 61

    Sun and Spirit

    00:29
  62. Chapter 62

    Stars in Waster

    01:48
  63. Chapter 63

    Parlor Ballooning

    00:54
  64. Chapter 64

    Marvelous

    00:37
  65. Chapter 65

    Mutability, the end

    01:10