Collins, A Frederick: The Boy Chemist ©1924 Frederick A Collins, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co , Boston Hardcover, no dj, 300 pages

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Comments: Includes a chapter on magic tricks using Chemistry.

Contents (from book):

vii Foreword (A Frederick Colllins)
ix Contents
xv Illustrations

1 Chapter 1 What You Need to Experiment With
1 The Apparatus You Need
2 What the Apparatus Consists of
2 How to Make a Ring Stand
4 How to Make an Alcohol Lamp
5 How to Make a Bunsen Burner
6 How to Make a Test-Tube Rack
9 Glass Beakers, Funnel, etc.
11 Your Supply of Chemicals
12 Storing Chemicals
13 Indicator Papers and Solutions
14 How Litmus Paper Acts
14 How Phenolphthalein Acts
14 How Methyl Orange Acts
15 How Congo Red Acts
15 How Sulphide Test Paper Acts
15 How to Work Glass Tubing
15 How to Cut a Glass Tube
16 How to Smooth Up the Sharp Edges
16 How to Bend Glass Tubing
17 How to Draw a Glass Nozzle

18 CHAPTER II Air, the Miracle-Worker
18 The Height of the Atmosphere
20 The Weight, or Pressure, of the Air
21 Experiment to Show that the Air Has Weight
21 What an Element is
22 Experiments to show What a Mechanical Mixture Is
23 Experiment to Show What a Chemical Compound Is
25 What the Air is Good for
25 About Burning and Combustion
26 What Rusting, or Oxidation, Is
26 Experiment to Show How Iron Rusts
26 Experiment to Show that Other Metals Rust
27 Experiment to show that Air Is Used Up When Iron Rusts
28 How Slow Oxidation Causes Decay
29 What Spontaneous Combustion Is
30 Substances that Oxygen Will Not Affect
30 How to Make Ozone
31 How to Test for Ozone

32 CHAPTER III Experiments with Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon Dioxide
32 A Simple Way to Make Oxygen
33 A Way to Make More Oxygen
35 The Self-Lighting Match
36 The Flashing Charcoal Pill
37 The Scintillating Watch-Spring
38 The Strange Action of Oxygen on Phosphorus
40 How to Make an Oxy-Calcium Light
41 How Sulphur Burns in Oxygen
42 A Simple Way to Make Nitrogen
43 Another Easy Way to Make Nitrogen
43 How to Make a Larger Amount of Nitrogen
44 The Self-Extinguishing Match
45 How to Show there is Carbon Dioxide in the Air
46 To Show That You Inhale Oxygen and Exhale Carbon Dioxide
47 How to Make Carbon Dioxide
49 A Better Way to Make Carbon Dioxide
51 To Show that Carbon Dioxide Will Not Support Combustion
52 To Show that Carbon Dioxide Destroys Life
52 A Magical Experiment With Air, Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
53 To Show that Carbon Dioxide Has Weight
54 To Separate a Candle from Its Flame
5 The Levitation of a Soap Bubble

56 CHAPTER IV The Wizardry of Water
56 Some Characteristics of Water
57 What Water Is Made of
57 What Water Is Good for
58 How to Purify Water
58 How to Filter Water
59 How to Boil Water
60 How to Distil Water
63 Tests for the Purity of Distilled Water
63 How to Raise the Temperature of Water
64 How to Lower the Temperature of Water
64 How to Make Ice
65 What Water of Crystallization Is
65 How to See the Water of Crystallization
66 How to Make Rock-Candy Crystals
67 How to Make a Secret Writing Ink
68 How to Make a Weather Forecaster
68 How to Make Imitation Ground Glass
68 Kinds of Water
69 How to Tell if Water Is Soft or Hard
69 How to Test for and Get Rid of Temporary Hardness
70 How to Test for and Get Rid of Permanent Hardness
70 How to Test Water for Odor and Color
71 How to Test Water for Mineral Substances
71 How to Test Water for Organic Matter
73 How to Test Water for Carbon Dioxide
73 How to Test Water for Alkalis
73 How to Test Water for Lime
73 How to Test Water for Acids
74 How to Test Water for Iron
74 How to Test Water for Sulphur

75 CHAPTER V Experiments with Hydrogen
75 How to Analyze Water
79 How to Make Synthetic Water with an Electric Spark
80 How to Make Synthetic Water with an Alcohol Flame
82 How to Make Hydrogen
83 How to Make Hydrogen without an Acid
85 How to Pour Out Hydrogen
85 The Diffusion of Hydrogen
86 How to Make a Hydrogen Flame
87 How Hydrogen Acts on Flame
88 How to Blow Hydrogen Soap Bubbles
89 How to Blow Hydrogen Cauliflower Soap Bubbles
90 How to Blow Resin Bubbles
91 How to Make a Self-Lighting Flame
92 How Hydrogen Acts on Silver Nitrate
93 How Hydrogen Acts on Sound
95 How to Make a Hydrogen-Flame Organ Pipe
96 How to Purify Hydrogen Gas
97 How to Dry Hydrogen

98 CHAPTER VI A Pair of Smelly Gases
99 Experiments with Chlorine
100 How to Make Chlorine
102 How to Test for Chlorine
102 How Chlorine Acts on Flame
102 Spontaneous Combustion
102 How to Make a Smoke Screen
103 The Art of Bleaching
104 How to Test the Bleaching Power of Chlorine
105 To Make a Red Rose White
105 How to Make Bleaching Powder
107 How to Make a Bleaching Liquid
107 How to Make a Bandanna Handkerchief
109 Experiment with Ammonia
110 How to Make a Little Ammonia
111 How to Make Ammonia on a Large Scale
112 To Show How Ammonia Dissolves in Water
113 How to Make an Ammonia-Operated Fountain
114 How to Make Concentrated Liquid Ammonia
116 An Experiment with Concentrated Liquid Ammonia
116 Some Uses of Aqua Ammonia

118 CHAPTER VII Acids, the Great Solvents
119 About Sulphuric Acid
119 The Easiest Way to Make Sulphuric Acid
121 A Better Way to Make Sulphuric Acid
121 Another Method for Making Sulphuric Acid
122 A Laboratory Method for Making Sulphuric Acid
122 How to Make Sulphur Dioxide
122 How to Make Sulphur Trioxide
124 How to Make Sulphuric Acid
124 Experiments with Sulphuric Acid
125 How to Change Sugar into Carbon
126 How to Write Indelibly on Cotton Goods
126 How to Make Copperas
126 How to Make Blue Vitriol
127 How to Make Epsom Salts
127 About Nitric Acid
127 How to Make Nitric Acid
129 Experiments with Nitric Acid
129 An Experiment in Spontaneous Combustion
129 The Action of Nitric Acid on Metals
130 About Hydrochloric Acid
131 To Make Hydrogen Chloride
131 To Make Hydrochloric Acid
133 How to Make a Hydrogen-Chloride Fountain
133 The Great Smoke Experiment
134 How to Make a Good Soldering Fluid
135 How to Make Imitation Emeralds
135 How to Make Aqua Regia
136 About Fluorine and Hydrofluoric Acid
136 How to Etch Glass
138 An Easier Way to Etch on Glass
138 How to Change Water into Ozone

139 CHAPTER VIII What Bases and Salts Are
140 What the Bases Are
140 What the Salts Are
141 How to Make Calcium Hydroxide - Caustic Lime
141 How to Make Sodium Hydroxide - Caustic Soda
142 How to Make Potassium Hydroxide (Caustic Potash)
144 How to Make Mortar
144 Other Things Made with Lime
145 How to Make Hard Soap
146 How to Make Soft Soap
146 How Soap-and-Water Cleans
146 How to Make Sodium Chloride - Common Table Salt
147 How to Make Sodium Sulphate - Glauber’s Salt
148 How to Make Sodium Nitrate - Chili Saltpeter
148 How to Make Potassium Chloride
149 How to Make Potassium Nitrate - Saltpeter

150 CHAPTER IX The Mystic Metals, Their Alloys and Amalgams
151 The Activity of the Metals
152 Potassium, the Softest Metal
152 Compounds of Potassium
153 An Experiment with Potassium
154 Sodium, Another Alkali Metal
154 Compounds of Sodium
154 An Experiment with Sodium
155 Lithium, the Lightest Metal
155 Compounds of Lithium
156 An Experiment with Lithium
156 Calcium, the Fourth Alkaline Metal
156 Compounds of Calcium
157 Experiments with Calcium
157 Magnesium, the Metal that Burns
158 Compounds of Magnesium
158 Experiments with Magnesium
159 Aluminum, the Lightest Common Metal
160 An Experiment with Aluminum
161 Manganese, the Hardening Metal
162 Compounds of Manganese
162 An Experiment with Manganese
162 Zinc, the Electric Metal
162 Compounds of Zinc
163 An Experiment with Zinc
164 Chromium, the Color-Making Metal
164 Experiments with Chromium
165 Iron, the Most Useful Metal
165 An Experiment with Iron
167 Nickel, the Non-Rusting Metal
167 How to Nickel-plate a Coin
169 Tin, the Soft, Malleable Metal
168 An Experiment with Tin
169 Lead, the Heavy Metal
169 How to Make a Lead-Tree
170 Copper, the Prehistoric Metal
171 An Experiment with Copper
172 Bismuth, the Easily Fusible Metal
172 Experiments with Bismuth
172 Antimony, the Metal that Expands
173 Experiments with Antimony
174 Mercury, the Liquid Metal
175 An Experiment with Mercury
175 Silver, the Queen of Metals
176 An Experiment with Silver
176 Gold, the King of Metals
177 An Experiment with Gold
178 Platinum, the Regal Metal
178 How Alloys Are Made
178 Alloys of Magnesium and Aluminum
179 Alloys of Iron and Steel
180 Alloys of Tin and Lead
180 Alloys of Copper
181 Silver Alloys
181 Gold Alloys
182 How Amalgams Are Made
182 A Sodium Amalgam
182 A Zinc Amalgam
182 Tin and Zinc Amalgams

184 CHAPTER X Chemistry Simply Explained
184 What Matter Is
185 What the Properties of Matter Are
185 First Experiment
186 Second Experiment
188 The Three Common Forms of Matter
188 What Matter Is Built Up of
190 What the Elements Are
190 How the Elements Got Their Names
191 What the Symbols Mean
192 What the Symbols Show
193 What Equations Are

195 CHAPTER XI Fire, Flame, Heat, and Light
195 What Fire Is
196 What Flame Is
196 What Heat Is
196 What Light Is
197 Ways of Making Heat and Fire
198 How a Candle Bums
198 How Ventilation Affects Combustion
199 How the Davy Safety-Lamp Works
200 How an Alcohol Lamp Burns
201 How Oil and Gas Lamps Burn
202 How a Bunsen Burner Works
202 How to Light the Burner
203 The Luminous Flame of the Burner
203 The Non-Luminous Flame of the Burner
204 How to Make Colored Flames
205 How to Make Charcoal
206 How Charcoal Is Made
207 What Coal Is
208 How to Make Coal Gas

209 CHAPTER XII How to Make Photographs
209 What Light Is
210 How Light Acts
212 How Light Acts on Silver
213 How to Make Silver Nitrate
213 Experiments with a Silver Nitrate Solution
214 How to Make Silver Chloride
215 Action of Light on Silver Chloride
216 How to Make a Pinhole Camera
216 How the Camera Works
217 How a Real Camera Is Made
217 How Dry Plates and Films Are Made
220 How a Picture Is Made on a Dry Plate or Film
220 How to Develop a Dry Plate or a Film
221 How to Fix the Picture
223 How to Make a Print from a Negative
223 Kinds of Printing Papers - Silver Papers
223 How to Make a Print
224 How to Tone the Print
225 How to Make a Velox Print
225 How to Make and Use Blue Paper

227 CHAPTER XIII The White Magic of Chemistry
227 Pouring Wine and Water from the Same Pitcher
229 Changing Water into Ink, and Vice Versa
231 The Blushing Bride
232 The Magical Atomizer
233 The Rainbow Liquid
234 Breathing a Picture on Glass
235 Passing Smoke Invisibly into a Tumbler
237 Elixir Vitae, or The Artificial Production of Life
238 How to Make Secret Writing Inks
238 A Heat Sympathetic Ink
238 A Light Sympathetic Ink
239 A Fluorescent Sympathetic Ink
239 How to Make Spirit Pictures
241 The Materialization of Mysteria
 
246 CHAPTER XIV Safe and Sane Fireworks
247 How to Make Fire without a Match
247 Writing with Fire Ink
248 Rapid Oxidation of Zinc
248 How to Make a Safe Fuse
248 How to Make a Flash-Light
249 How to Make Explosive Matches
249 How to Make Rainbow Lights
250 How to Make Fourth of July Sparklers
251 How to Make a White Flash-Light
252 How to Make a Red Flash-Light
252 How to Make a Green Flash-Light
253 How to Make Flash Paper
254 How to Make Colored Flash Paper
254 How to Make Flash Handkerchiefs
254 How to Light a Paper without a Flame
256 How to Light a Paper with a Piece of Ice
256 The Great Fire-Eating Trick
256 How to Make Colored Fire - Red Fire
257 Green Fire
257 Yellow Fire
258 Bengal Lights
258 How to Make Phosphine Smoke Rings
260 How to Make Pharaoh’s Serpents

263 CHAPTER XV Useful Household Recipes
263 How to Make Soaps
263 Toilet Soap
264 Perfumed Soap
264 Colored Soap
264 Floating Soap
264 Glycerine Soap
265 Sapolio
265 How to Make a Safe Dry-Cleansing Compound
265 How to Take Out Spots and Stains - A Fresh Grease Spot
266 Old Grease Spots
266 Paint Spots
266 Ink Spots
267 Iron-Rust Stains
267 Alkali Spots
267 Mildew Stains
268 How to Make Bleaching Compounds
268 For Cotton and Linen Goods
268 For Wool and Silk
268 For Hair and Wool
269 How to Make Disinfectants
270 How to Make and Use Dyes
270 Direct or Substantive Dyes
271 Red Logwood Dye
271 Black Logwood Dye
271 Green Logwood Dye
271 Yellow Tumeric Dye
271 Brown Tumeric Dye
271 Bright Red Cochineal Dye
271 Orange Cochineal Dye
272 Violet Cochineal Dye
272 Insoluble Dyes
272 To Dye Indigo Blue
272 To Dye Tumeric Yellow
273 Mordant, or Adjective, Dyes
273 How to Make and Use Aniline Dyes
274 Direct Aniline Dyes for Cotton Goods
274 Mordant Aniline Dyes for Cotton Goods
274 Acid Colors for Silk and Woolen Goods
275 How to Make Inks - Black Ink
275 Blue Ink
275 Purple Ink
275 Red Ink
276 Green Ink
276 Printer’s Ink
276 Some Other Useful Recipes
276 How to Make a Liquid Ink Eraser
277 How to Make a Good China Cement
277 How to Make an Adhesive Paste
278 How to Make Fire-Extinguishing Compounds
279 How to Clean Silverware Chemically
279 How to Clean Silverware Electrically
280 How to Waterproof Goods
280 How to Fireproof Goods
280 How to Make a Hair-Remover

282 List of Elements and Their Symbols
283 Index