Johnson, V.E., M.A. Chemistry and Chemical Magic ©1912 Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, London Hardcover, 150 pages

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Comments: From the Playbooks of Science series. Note: many of these experiments use chemicals that are now known to be hazardous to handle.

Contents:

5 Preface
9 Introductory

11 Chapter I General Precautions and Suggestions

14 Chapter II Liquid Colour Effects
14 Experiment 1 Wine and Water
15 Experiment 2 Claret and Water - Non-Poisonous
17 Experiment 3 Water to Sherry and Sherry to Water
17 Experiment 4 Water to Sherry, Sherry to Port, Port to Water
18 Experiment 5 Water to Ink, Ink to Port, Port to Water
20 Experiment 6 Water to Ink, Ink to Port, Port to Sherry, Sherry to Water, many Gradations
21 Experiment 7 To Stir a Glass of Water First to Yellow, Then, by Gradations, to Scarlet, and Finally to Clear Water Again
24 Experiment 8 To Produce Five or Six Differently Coloured Solutions From a Glass Jug Full of Clear Water; To Pour Them All Back Into the Jug and Have Still a Clear Solution; The Original Water to be Drunk; More Familiarly Known as Rainbow or Chameleon Water
25 Experiment 9 Chameleon or Rainbow Water - Another Method
27 Experiment 10 To Have Two Glassfuls of Liquid, One Yellow and One Blue, to Mix Them by Pouring Them Into a Third Glass and Obtain Clear Water
28 Experiment 11 To Separate Two Wines That Have Been Mixed
28 Experiment 12 To Turn Water to Milk and Back Again
29 Experiment 13 To Turn Milk into Wine
29 Experiment 14 To Turn Wine into Milk
29 Experiment 15 To Turn a Glass of Wter ANy Primary Colour Asked For - Red, Green or Blue Violet
29 Experiment 16 The Obedient Colours - Four Different Coloured Liquids Each of WHich Changes to Any Colour Asked For
31 Notes on Chapter II

34 Chapter III Spirit Pictures and Sympathetic Writing
34 Experiment 17 A Colour Developer
35 Experiment 18 The Shifty Photograph
35 Experiment 19 The Magical Drawing
36 Experiment 20 Green
36 Experiment 21 Blue
36 Experiment 22 Brown
37 Experiment 23 Red
37 Experiment 24 Flourescent Writing
38 Experiment 25 Yellow
38 Experiment 26 Black
38 Experiment 27 Pale Rose Colour
38 Experiment 28 A Zoological Transformation
39 Experiment 29 Designs
39 Experiment 30 Chameleon Pictures
40 Experiment 31 The Blushing Picture
41 Experiment 32 Magical Portraits on Glass
42 Experiment 33 Another Experiment in Glass Etching
43 Experiment 34 The Magic Rosebush
44 Notes on Chapter III

45 Chapter IV Mysteries of Fire and Water
45 Experiment 35 Fire Burning Under Water
46 Experiment 36 Burning Water
46 Experiment 37 A Piece of Ice Used as a Match
47 Experiment 38 Fire Stars Burning in Water
48 Experiment 39 Naked Fire Burning Under Water
49 Experiment 40 Will-o-The-Wisp 1st Method
50 Experiment 41 Will-o-The-Wisp 2nd Method
50 Experiment 42 Will-o-The-Wisp 3rd Method
50 Notes on Chapter IV

52 Chapter V Spontaneous Combustion and Magical Explosives
52 Experiment 43 Spontaneous Combustion
52 Experiment 44 A Safe Magical Explosive
53 Experiment 45 To Set Fire to a Newspaper by Breathing On It
53 Experiment 46 A Fulmnating Powder - an Experiment in Fusion
54 Experiment 47 Instantaneous Flame
54 Experiment 48 The Spontaneous Combustion of Three Metals
55 Experiment 49 Greek Fire
56 Experiment 50 Artificial Lightning
56 Experiment 51 How to Prepare Flash or Ligthning Paper of Various Colors
57 Experiment 52 Silver Fire
58 Experiment 53 Golden Fire
58 Experiment 54 Fire Burning Under Water

59 Chapter VI Chemical Pyrotechnics and Parlour Fireworks
60 Experiment 55 Blue Fire
60 Experiment 56 Red Fire
61 Experiment 57 Green Fire
61 Experiment 58 Yellow Fire
62 Experiment 59 Japanese Matches
63 Experiment 60 Pharoh's Serpents
64 Experiment 61 To Draw a Design on a Piece of Paper by Setting Fire To It
64 Experiment 62 To Draw a Design on a Piece of Paper, Burn the Paper and Leave the Design

66 Chapter VII Strange Acting Alloys
66 Experiment 63 An Alloy Which Fuses at Low Temperature
66 Experiment 64 Fusible Alloy
67 Experiment 65 Liponitz's Alloy
67 Experiment 66 Sodium Amalgam

68 Chapter VIII Quick Bleaching Agents - Their Actions and Restorers
68 Experiment 67 How to Prepare Chlorine Gas
70 Experiment 68 Another Way to Prepare Chlorine Gas
71 Experiment 69 How to Prepare Chlorine Water
72 Experiment 70 Chlorine as a Supporter of Combustion
72 Experiment 71 To Illustrate the Weight and Quick Bleaching Action of Chlorine
73 Experiment 72 Chlorine as a Colour Producer
73 Experiment 73 The Preparation of Sulphurous Acid
75 Experiment 74 The Bleaching Action of Sulphurous Acid
76 Experiment 75 Chlorine Monoxide

77 Chapter IX The Magical Production and Uses of Certain Gases, Smokes and Vapours
77 Experiment 76 How to Prepare Carbon Dioxide
77 Experiment 77 An Experiment in Weighing Nothing
78 Experiment 78 A Novel Candle Extinguisher
78 Experiment 79 Half-and-Half or Mysterious Taper
79 Experiment 80 To Produce Milk From Water
79 Experiment 81 Soap Bubbles Floating on Carbon Dioxide
80 Experiment 82 Soap Bubble Floating on Ether and Afterwards Exploding
81 Experiment 83 The Precipitation of Smoke
81 Experiment 84 The Instantaneous Production of a Beautifully Coloured Vapour
82 Experiment 85 The Production of Inflated Balloons From a Hat

84 Chapter X Chemical Vegetation
84 Experiment 86 To Make Trees of Lead
84 Experiment 87 Tin Trees
85 Experiment 88 Silver Trees
85 Experiment 89 Gold Tree
86 Experiment 90 Chemical Vegetation of Variegated Colours
86 Experiment 91 The Crystallized Grotto
87 Experiment 92 Chemical Snow
88 Experiment 93 Instantaneous Crystallization
88 Experiment 94 Camphor Trees
89 Experiment 95 Visible Crystallization in the Lantern
89 Note on Chapter X

91 Chapter XI Freezing Mixtures and Their Wonders
93 Experiment 96
93 Experiment 97 Interesting Low-Temperature Chemical Mixtures
96 Experiment 98 How to Freeze Mercury
98 Experiment 99
98 Experiment 100
98 Experiment 101
99 Experiment 102 AN Extraordinary Disappearance
100 Experiment 103 The Kettle That Boils on Ice
100 Experiment 104 Liquids That Do Not Wet
101 Experiment 105 To Make Grapes Like Marbles and Flowers Like Glass
102 Experiment 106 To Make Ice Cream in a Chafing Dish Heated Over a Spirit Lamp
103 Experiment 107 The Mercury-Headed Hammer
103 Experiment 108 Liquid Air

104 Chapter XII Oxygen and Hydrogen - The Effects of High Temperature
104 Experiment 109 How to Make Oxygen Gas
105 Experiment 110
105 Experiment 111
106 Experiment 112
106 Experiment 113 Steel Burning in Oxygen
106 Experiment 114 The Preparation of Hydrogen Gas
108 Experiment 115 Soap Bubble Balloons
108 Experiment 116 An Experiment in Squeaking
109 Experiment 117 The Oxyhydrogen Blow-Pipe

111 Chapter XIII Fire Eating and Fire Eaters
113 Experiment 118 Eating Lighted Wax Vestas
113 Experiment 119 A Lighted Candle as Dessert
114 Experiment 120 Chinese Fire Eating

115 Chapter VIV Miscellaneous Experiments
115 Experiment 121 The Sinking and Floating Egg
115 Experiment 122 Chameleon Powder
116 Experiment 123 The Magical Scent Spray
116 Experiment 124 A Colour-Changing Fountain Red to Blue
117 Experiment 125 A Colour-Changing Fountain Blue to Red
118 Experiment 126 A Change of Volume
119 Experiment 127 A Change of Temperature
119 Experiment 128 Another Zoological Transformation
120 Experiment 129 A Change of Colour
120 Experiment 130 To Extinguish a Candle by Cooling It
120 Experiment 131 Fire From Water
121 Experiment 132 A Study in Yellow
121 Experiment 133 Philosopher's Wool
121 Experiment 134 Spur Rowels
122 Experiment 135 In and Out
123 Experiment 136 Self-Luminous Steam
124 Experiment 137 Soluble Glass
125 Experiment 138 Iron Wire Burning in Oxygen
125 Experiment 139 Aqua Regia
125 Experiment 140 The White and Black Statue
126 Experiment 141 How to Freeze Mercury in a Red Hot Vessel
126 Experiment 142 Burning Air
127 Experiment 143 Burning Copper Wire
127 Experiment 144 A Soluble Gas
127 Experiment 145 Salamander's Hair
127 Experiment 146 The Mysterious Scorpion
128 Experiment 147 The Extinquished and Relighted Candle
129 Experiment 148 How to Plunge Your Hand Into Real Water and Yet Not Wet It
130 Experiment 149 The Eruption of Vesuvious
130 Experiment 150 The Mysterious Migration
131 Experiment 151 How to Make a Lump of Sugar Float on Water
132 Experiment 152 How to Plunge a Sheet of White Paper into Ink Without Blackening It
133 Experiment 153 More Spontaneous Combustion
133 Experiment 154 An Ink That Can be Really Erased
134 Experiment 155 AN Experiment on the Radioactive Properties of an Ordinary Gas Mantle
135 Experiment 156 Becquerel Rays

136 Chapter XV The Effective Presentation of Chemical Experiments

145 Chapter XVI Laboratory Directions
145 Hints and Cautions